Subject: Re: trivial patch for bz2abw plugin
From: Kenneth J.Davis (jeremyd@computer.org)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 19:02:32 CST
Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote on 2/2/2002 7:50:44 PM:
>
>On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Mike Nordell wrote:
>
>> Alan Horkan wrote:
>> >
>> > sorry to nitpick but maybe a three letter extension might be better?
>>
>> Maybe not? We don't have to be compatible with MS-DOS (and derivates - such
>> as Windows 3.x) since AbiWord requires at least a 32-bit platform (anyone
>
>I realise you dont NEED to have 8.3 filenames, but im trying to say play
>it safe and use 8.3 unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.
>
>It may be more descriptive to use a longer file extension, but the option
>of .abw.bz2 is still available.
>
>We could have the extension .abiword but we dont.
>You never know someone might actually try porting Abiword to 16bit (and
>maybe the rest of Abi Office Suite la la la)
Ok, not 16bit, but I am working on porting it to DOS [slowly] via
DJGPP/GCC 3.03 and Allegro. (Very very early stages!) [reminds me
to update my patches for the configuration system (to add DOS to the
list) and to the couple of files that have platform #ifdefs and see
if they can be committed? too much to do, never enough time :-) ]
>
>but seriously
>Are there downsides to using a 3 letter suffix in this case?
not really, other than being less descriptive
>
>> > Its probably not inherently any better but i still
>> > try and keep to 8.3 filenames out of habit.
>>
>> If you still have to support Win16 or Novell 3.11 I can understand your
>> standpoint, but I don't think it's fit for the general public nowadays. Even
>
>play it safe,
>if you want i could try and find out the necessary window registry
>settings to hide the extension from "the general public".
>
>> That's what I'd assume it to be if it was a bzip2 compressed .abw file.
>> Coming to think of it, I'd actually prefer .abw.gz over .zabw (the latter
perhaps it should be .gzabw or some such, but .abw.gz can cause problems
as I don't think Windows uses more than the part after the last dot for
the extension, so .abw.gz is treated as a .gz file not a .abw.gz file.
[but hey, I've been wrong before and I could be wrong here]
>
>agreed
>i leave compression off by default i feel safer with text and have plenty
>of diskspace.
>
>Ive made my suggestion, im done for now
>
>Sincerely
>Alan
I concur. :-)
Jeremy Davis
jeremyd@computer.org
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