Re: Pitfalls and benefits of personal extensions......was ...NB6.0 File extensions

[Mary Bernard <Mary_Bernard>]

Maureen

> ...the benefits and pitfalls of
> defining my own extensions in terms of the mechanics of the program. What
> troubles might this land me in with regard to other NB transactions such as
> file conversion for example.
I am quite cavalier about file extensions. I have a few .NB files, but most 
of my work files have no extns at all, to save (mis-)typing the period when 
calling them from the cmd line. Some of my programs have the .RUN extn, but 
some (sent by XyWrite people such as Carl) have .PM and others have .XPL. 
Others have none at all.

Some of my work files have exensions that consist of the initials of the 
person they pertain to: CLIPPINGS.GFC, LETTERS.ETA. I have converted some 
of these successfully to RTF and Word Perfect for sharing with colleagues; 
also some with no extensions.

In Win 98 you can reserve any extension for NB - meaning only that you can 
double-click on a file with that extn in Explorer and NB will open it. You 
open Explorer and do View, File Types, and create a new one. I've done that 
with RUN, GFC, and a few other types, including DOC. To do that I had to do 
violence to a Word file-type definition in the File Types, but all that 
means is that I can't open Doc files in Word just by double-clicking in 
Explorer, and I don't care about that.

But I don't know whether later versions of Windows are so accommodating.

Mary




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