> Yes, I was referring to Windows (or more precisely, GUI OSes where you would > open a file by (double)clicking the icon of the file). Hadn't really > thought about purely text-based OSes. BeOS is a GUI OS on which the file type has nothing to do with the extension. On any modern Unix you open files by double-clicking them in your file manager. That does not make the type depend on the extension. The list goes on (need I mention MacOS 9, where the type is only very loosely dependent on the extension, if at all?). Of course MacOS 9 is a purely text-based OS, so we don't have to worry about it. Boris -- If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.Received on Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:08:46 GMT
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