Need help with TCP/IP client access from Windows
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Jul 30 12:04:31 EDT 1999
Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com>:
> > OK. Will giving the filename ".\\intriguer" work for this? And,
> > given that the filename is going through the C library, will leaving
> > it as "./intriguer" work?
>
> Yes and yes. File Manager doesn't know what to make of an
> extensionless file name, but that's OK. For years I created comma
> delimited files as ".cdf". Then one day I installed IE 4, and they
> magically became "Channel Definition Files".
>
> This is good. It means that while Ionesco is dead, his spirit
> lives on.
:-)
"Six Filenames In Search Of An Editor". (Yes, I know, that's Pirandello.)
I've been considering using .ini format anyway; it's a good match to the
problem domain and the module to parse it is just lying there in 1.5.2.
So I guess I'll go with "./intriguer.ini".
Thanks!
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<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>
"The state calls its own violence `law', but that of the individual `crime'"
-- Max Stirner
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