Subject: Re: [Bug 1471] - Incorrect exporter used when two support same suffix
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 22:44:55 CDT
--- Tim <tjl@141.com> wrote: > I may have this
switched around, but plain text
> exports as *.text, and human
> readable exports as *.txt.Windows, being the
> wonderful OS that it is,
> doesn't understand what a *.text file is(unless you
> explicitly tell it).
> This is why I think Windows is the greatest OS ever
> known to mankind. :)
If that's the case, it's a bug. All 5 importers/
exporters should have their suffix fields as
"*.txt; *.text" so that they create files as .txt
but can load files as .txt or .text.
Then even advanced OSes like Windows should work
properly (:
Andrew Dunbar.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Dunbar" <hippietrail@yahoo.com>
> To: <tjl@141.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bug 1471] - Incorrect exporter used
> when two support same
> suffix
>
>
> > --- bugzilla-daemon@abisource.com wrote: >
> > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471
> > >
> > > tjl@141.com changed:
> > >
> > > What |Old Value
> |New
> > > Value
> > >
> >
>
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> --
> > > Status|QA TO VERIFY
> > > |CLOSED
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------- Additional Comments From tjl@141.com
> > > 2001-07-19 16:24 -------
> > > Verified. And I notice the two text formats now
> have
> > > diffrent extensions, this
> > > doesn't seem like a good solution, esp. since a
> > > default windows install does
> > > not understand what a *.text file is.
> >
> > Really? Which two? There are two text importers
> and
> > three text exporters: plain, encoded, and
> > "human readable".
> > The extensions are cross platform. They don't use
> > Windows' filetype system.
> >
> > Andrew Dunbar.
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