Text files on Windows

[Ken Ray]

Shari,

For windows you need to use a file extension which tells the Windows OS what
app to open. If you just write a file called "MyStuff", it will look generic
and won't open in an app when you double-click it (you'll get an "Open
with..." dialog box). If you name it "MyStuff.txt", it will launch Notepad
when you double-click it (unless the user has mapped the ".txt" extension to
another app).

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shari" <gypsyware at earthlink.net>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: Text files on Windows


> open file someFile
> write something to file someFile
> close file someFile
>
> On a Mac, this creates a generic Simpletext file.
>
> What does it create on Windows?  And what Windows programs can open
> and read it?
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