Subject: Re: file naming problems
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 10:07:25 CST
At 04:34 AM 1/16/00 -0600, sam th wrote:
>In attempting to generate errors to test the patch that I just submitted,
>I noticed several peculiearites about abiword's save file naming
>conventions:
>
>1 it is impossible to save a file w/o an extension, at least on
>linux systems. I think this is a problem, and will try to find a way to
>fix it. however, wether this is a bug or a feature should be discussed
>additionally, no extension other than those in the dialog are currently
>possible. (new extensions are added on top of old ones currently)
This was a major point of contention a while back because of the way
Windows handles file extensions versus the way Linux does. The recent "ms
word bug" thread which started in abiword-user and drifted over here is
just a small taste of that.
If you think you can improve the algorithm, go for it. Just be careful not
to do so in such a way as to cause problems in the Windows build.
>2 if you click on a directory in the save as dialog (again in linux)
>and without typing anything in the name field, it creates a file such as
>.abw in the selected directory. i cannot imagine this being useful, and
>it is certainly not likely to be the expected behavior.
I have seen this behavior before, and I believe it might be related to
#680, http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=680
Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist
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