Subject: Re: [patch] compressed abw files
From: Richard Jefts (babs@cs.jhu.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 20:11:30 CST
I figured the new extension would make it easier to associate it with
AbiWord. (ie, double clicking the file would bring up AbiWord not winzip).
richie
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 sterwill@abisource.com wrote:
> Richard Jefts wrote:
> > I've added a new file type, *.zabw, gzipped compressed abiword files.
> > The attached file contains a patch and 4 files to go in src/wp/impexp/xp.
> >
> > ie_imp_GZipAbiWord.h
> > ie_imp_GZipAbiWord.cpp
> > ie_exp_GZipAbiWord.h
> > ie_exp_GZipAbiWord.cpp
>
> This sounds like a very cool patch, but I wonder about the need to create
> a new extension. It seems more logical (to me) to name the files like
> ".abw.gz", similarly to how Gimp names its native files (".xcf" if normal,
> ".xcf.gz" if compressed). I haven't visited the file open/close dialogs
> and related guts recently, but I think our suffix handling would break on
> my example case (usually we just start on the end of the string and walk
> back until we see a '.').
>
> --
> Shaw Terwilliger
>
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