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

["Earls, JP" <JEarls>]

Maureen,
I believe the DOS list is evanescent.  But if you give the command as
suggested, it will convert those selfsame files that it gathered into
the list.

I was going to raise the question about changing them.  I (again)
believe that the main advantages of the *.nb extensions are that 1) you
know which are your NB files, and 2) if clicked on for calling-up
purposes, Windows will go to NBWin and not to another program.  If you
double-click on one of your *.nts files, a menu will come up telling you
that Windows doesn't know with what program to associate a file with
this extension.  You can then go through the steps to associate a *nts
file with NBWin.

If I understand you correctly, the only files that would not be
identified as a NBWIn file would be the ones using numbers as
extensions.

J. P. Earls, OSB
St. John' University
Collegeville, MN  56321

-----Original Message-----
From: Maureen Kelly [mailto:kellybs] 
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:46 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
Subject: Re: Pitfalls and benefits of personal extensions......was
...NB6.0 File extensions



JP

Thanks for asking:   yes and prompted me to have another question or
two.......I'm do not know how to get to 4DOS or 4NT or to 'shell out to
Dos'.....what I did know to do was to do the following on the command
line
(first time I've ever used Dos from NBWin) and did

find *.nts
F10

That resulted in a DOS list of all files with .nts..   From that I
assume I
could use the rename command as was suggested on the list, although I
have
not yet done that....why?

because now I wonder if I should leave them as is.  Maybe you (or anyone
else on the list) can refresh my thinking about 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.

In my Directory/Personal files where I often have continuing
correspondence
with a party, I use .001 and 002 and 003 extensions. and this allows me
to
isolate all files for that party as I need to using the 8 characters and
resulting in a chronologically ordered set of files.

In my Directory/Professional/files the file names are coded but all
limited
to 8 characters.  So notes I take from a book of yours has the file name
earltitl.nts (first four letters of author and first four of title)and
is
found in a subdirectory called 'reading notes'.  Notes I take related to
courses I've TA'd or taught and lectures and such are coded to indicate
course and semester or lecturer name, alway limited to 8 characters and
these are found in a subdirectory called 'teaching'

>From my early airline days, before computers,  when our cmx were via
hand
keyed telex machines, I developed a coding system I still use
so, I have not drifted away from 8digit filenames into the land of long
file
names up to 256...but maybe my tendency to use the extension as an
additional identifier, is not suitable for what I might find down the
road
in NB......

So, what wisdom do you have on that....and anyone else on the list
also....thanks much

Maureen
kellybs



----- Original Message -----
From: "Earls, JP" <JEarls>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: NB6.0 File extensions


> Maureen,
> Did the answers about the extensions make sense?
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> J. P. Earls, OSB
> St. John' University
> Collegeville, MN  56321
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