> Hi all, > > Frode wrote... > >First of all Stefan, Don't want to be picky, but your lines are > >way too long. Please restrict yourself to max 80 char. per line. > > > Sorry, but I am NOT going to count how many characters is on each line. This > mailer > handles everything rather nicely from my point of view. (Windows Netmanage - > truetype font for the mailer).
If you can't specify how many characters per line in your mailer, it's broken. And trutype fonts don't look rather nice in ASCII... > > >> First of all the tag I intended is as an extension and therefore part of > >> the directory > entry. > > > >So, a suffix to the filename? > > > > :) Whatever that means. > > > > >You are talking about convensions. That is OK. Let's call mod-files > >something.mod, native screens for something.scr, text files for > >something.txt or whatever, but don't impose this on the DOS! If > >I for some reason wants to call a text-file for just "tjalabais" > >without any suffix, or "tjalla.bais" I want to do that. A file > >should be transparent for the DOS. > > > > -Frode > > > I don't agree with you on that. The DOS will always impose some restrictions > on the file > names. One example is the length of the filename. Using suffixes just makes > things so > easy for utilities and stuff to list only readable files and is also easy for > the user so that > he knows what kind of file he's dealing with. Maybe I'm just used to ms-dos. A file should be able to fill an entire disk - this is a restriction imposed by the disc, not the DOS. The DOS should treat a file like a file and nothign but a file. And as I said, using suffixes is perfectly OK as long as this is not part of some 'built in feature' of the DOS. And if you think MessDOS is a nice operating system, try a _real_ operatingsystem. :) -Frode
