From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 27 10:39:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from assari.cc.tut.fi (assari.cc.tut.fi [130.230.10.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 402D037B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22313 invoked by uid 13370); 27 Jun 2002 17:39:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 17:39:30 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:39:30 +0300 (EET DST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tomi_H=E4s=E4?= X-X-Sender: hasa@assari.cc.tut.fi To: Ross Lippert Cc: wouter@pair.com, Subject: Re: Readme for Windows Users In-Reply-To: <200206271707.KAA06034@eskimo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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 Greetings, On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Ross Lippert wrote: > > >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 > > 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. Yes. As a Windows user I'm used to simple file names with only one dot per file name like Handbook in HTML.html Handbook in HTML.zip Handbook in HTML.tar Handbook in PDF.pdf Handbook in PDF.tar Handbook in PDF.zip Handbook in Text.tar Handbook in Text.txt Handbook in Text.zip Not something as cryptic like as Handbook.xyz.pdf.abc.zip.gzip.tar Who knows what programs and tricks you need to open that kind of file. :-) By the way, now there isn't any need for a readme.txt if you list the files as I did above. That list shouldn't confuse anybody. Yours sincerely, Tomi Häsä To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message