On Wed September 14 2005 22:11, RDMcBride wrote:
> Thank you, Naomi and CPH;
No prob.
> Your patience in dealing with underfed PC users as myself is extraordinary.
>
> When you say, " Word uses a 'doc' file type, and files using that format
> have a '.doc' extension after the file name given by the user", this
> means to me that I may treat one "doc" as another ".doc". I suppose I am
> treating 'fred' like 'frank'? Does it really make any difference?
When you expliciitly name a file it has no effect on what format the file is
save in. The format is only affected by the "File Type".
> Otherwise, I am guessing what was at the heart of CPH's admonition was
> NOT to simply erase the .doc off the thend of a "string". Is that
> correct? Rather, one should save the whole file through the Save As
> function, using the "Save as type" pull down menu list of associations?
Correct.
> I suppose this sends changes back through Registry while merely erasing
> .doc and adding .swx does not? The latter merely leaves an
> unidentifiable sxptz on the page?
No it is simpler than that, there is no interaction with the registry, it is
simply the way the file is saved.
> So, in a perfect world, should the "Save as type" really be "Save as
> file type"?
Or "Save file as type" :)
> If I now understand CPH's original meaning, it makes no difference that
> I learned to do this long ago through triala nd error; my problem is a
> failure to understand the word associations -- which is why I can't make
> head or tails of the GTK site, and they are doing stuff I need to
> understand.
I hope that the explanation above helps you.
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