[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Richard Maher]

Hi Bill,

"Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message
news:7qech6F3tt7rbU2 at mid.individual.net...
> In article <4b40c08e$0$280$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> > On 03-01-2010 10:48, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >> In article<obydncht8rSnK93WnZ2dnUVZ_qudnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
> >>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >>>> In article<4b40a5e2$0$280$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
> >>>>> On 02-01-2010 23:22, JF Mezei wrote:
> >>>>>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> But but but - did you unzip the container before
> >>>>>>> looking at it??
> >>>>>> If it was a zipped XML file, why was its extention not ".ZIP" ????
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How the<4 letter word that begins with H and ends with ELL>   is
one
> >>>>>> supposed to know that some proprietary Microsoft format is a zip
archive ?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> And if it was so easy to just unzip it, why was I told I needed a
> >>>>>> proprioetary micsrosoft application to convert that format to a
.DOC or
> >>>>>> XML format readable by some other application ?
> >>>>> A .docx file is a zip file containing XML files.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you rename it to .zip and look into it then you will
> >>>>> see a bunch of xml files. I believe document.xml is the
> >>>>> one you will want.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The extension is not .zip because then double clicking on it
> >>>>> would open a zip utility/filebrowser instead of the intended
> >>>>> Word.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is not a proprietary format but standardized format. Only
> >>>>> around 10000 pages of specification.  :-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> To read it then I would also have suggested an office
> >>>>> application. It is not that easy to read that XML. MS Office
> >>>>> is obvious, but I believe that OpenOffice should be able
> >>>>> to read it as well.
> >>>>
> >>>> You're saying that a .DOC is XML?  I thought it was proprietary M$
W(ei)RD.
> >>>
> >>> You can use any extension you like and it has little or nothing to to
> >>> with the file contents.  Programs will make assumptions about format
and
> >>> content based on the extension but don't let that limit your
creativity!
> >>
> >> Well, VMS doesn't and that brings this back to being a VMS thread.
> >
> > The *nix and Win way is that extension implies content
>
> Hate to ruin your day, but *nix doesn't care what you use for an
> extension on anything.  There is absolutely no significance of any
> extension at the OS level.

Yeah you gotta love cut/pasting filenames with scripts containg
!#usr/bin/gocrazy

putty really comes to the party with it's default paste button and
window-focus behaviour as well :-(

>
> bill

Cheers Richard Maher