Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:17:34 +0100
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On 27/07/2010 12:13, Rick Murray wrote:

>> True.  Which is why UNIX is better :-)  My pet hate is Windows
>  > assuming everything with a .doc extension must belong in Word.
> 
> You mean like when you start a RISC OS computer and it is just assumed 
> that text files load into !Edit [ ... ]

> For .doc, it is because in this day and age, .doc files are associated 
> with Word. I say associated because mine open in OpenOffice. :-)

Smart choice :-)

> The pain here is mostly from poseur ShareWare authors back in the early 
> '90s who decided their ASCII text helpfiles were too good to be .txt 

Not at all, .doc predates that by a long way.  The .doc extension was 
very common on many systems such as CP/M, UNIX, and many DEC OSes, for 
text files, especially formatted text files, which were documentation 
rather than source code, and for word processor files produced by 
various systems that predate MS Word, such as Wordstar, RUNOFF, and many 
others.  The computer age was not invented in 1983.

I wouldn't mind Word grabbing every document in sight if only it wasn't 
so bloated, clunky, and insistent on complaining that the format of 
various is wrong.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York