Date   : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:08:15 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On 29/07/2010 03:02, Rick Murray wrote:
> On 29/07/2010 00:23, J.G.Harston wrote:
>
>> Has been since 1982.
>
> <sigh>  I give up. Stick with the "." extension if you like. I'm using
> ".basic" so I can make something actually *happen* when I double-click
> the file...

That's a real problem with the windows interface the fact that it 
absolutely relies on the extension to ascociate the file, I really wish 
there where a way of asociating files with no extension that match a 
pattern with a program, this would really be usefull in the case of 
Makefile etc.

> PS: Just because something has been broken since 1982 is no reason to
>       not look to fixing it.

I think the problem is that Jonathan is using an archemedes which does 
not IIRC have the no extension problem that widows does, so it's not 
broken as far as he is concerned.

Cheers.

Phill.