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

[Paul Sture]

In article <hhtvkt$nqq$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au>,
 "Richard Maher" <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

I had something weird recently with that on OS X. I couldn't print a 
file (was it a CSS file?) from the command line until I edited out the 
!*xxxx line.

-- 
Paul Sture