[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Irritatingly long file names

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Jan 2002, Chris Richards wrote:

> Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > If we do it in this fashion please choose a .txt or .doc extension for the
> > benefit of poor MS users. This means we must either:
> > 
> > a) change the style of files like HOWTOPLAY to for e.g. playing_intro.txt
> > b) change the style of those above to e.g. CODING_STYLE and HACKING.
> > 
> > Oh and yes, it doesn't annoy me to move things to doc/. I find it that the
> > main directory is starting to get cluttered. And i don't like to mix name
> > styles, or have redundant text. :-)
> 
> Chances are the files are going to be in unix format, anyway.  So,
> having a .txt isn't going to work.  It is better if you add a shortcut
> to your SentTo/ directory to notepad.exe and to wordpad.exe.  That
> way, you can just right-click on the appropriate README file | select
> Sendto-> | select Wordpad.

Yes. But .doc works. It opens either Wordpad or Word. And both read UNIX
files just fine.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa