Re: [Bug] MS Word Import .dot==.doc?


Subject: Re: [Bug] MS Word Import .dot==.doc?
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 14:55:48 CST


At 08:15 PM 3/9/01 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
>i have a bad feeling about creating another file name extension i dont
>know why. Besides AWT is the name of the Java Advanced Windowing
>Toolkit.

Of course it is. So what? There's *zero* potential for conflict here:

  - The good folks at Sun don't use it for a suffix.
  - Unlike certain competitors, we don't use AWT anywhere in the product.

Should I admit that I made that particular choice deliberately? ;-)

Paul,
feisty guy



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