From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 27 10: 7:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383CD37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02095; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:07:10 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id KAA06034; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206271707.KAA06034@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: wouter@pair.com Cc: tomi.hasa@tut.fi, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <1025195851.16201.14.camel@cocaine> (message from Wouter Van Hemel on 27 Jun 2002 18:37:30 +0200) Subject: Re: Readme for Windows Users Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >book.html.tar.gz Handbook in html format and gzip compression >book.pdf.gz Handbook in pdf format and gzip compression >book.ps.gz Handbook in postscript format and gzip compression >[...] > >Or how do you see it? Why not? Although the naming convention chosen may be obvious to you and I, perhaps it is not so plain to someone else. Is it wrong to err on the side of moronity? I can imagine that as Windows becomes more proficient at hiding file extensions from its users, that its users will become less accustomed to what those extensions mean. Perhaps this individual was not used to seeing a file-type by its extension. Certainly the extension of extensions (.pdf.gz and .ps.gz) is something fairly uncommon in the Windows world and could confuse a Windows user. I'd hate to see such a person deprived of their chance to try FreeBSD because of that. Just $0.2. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message