Date   : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:16:33 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On 29/07/2010 09:34, Rob wrote:

> Well, it certainly used to be possible to associate "no extension"
> files with an application:
[...]

Interesting kludge to permit no-extension files to do something.

Pray tell - what's so bad about giving a file an extension? Under RISC 
OS, files are assigned a type. Under DOS-based, an extension. It's 
sort-of the same thing with a different way of looking at the problem.


> Hey, we're using Beebs, which have no file-typing method at all - we
> should be used to this :-)

Ah, but we didn't double-click random files in the Beeb era. We loaded 
an application, and loaded the file into said application. Now we're 
just lazy and expect the computer to do this stuff for us. :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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