[fpc-devel] Using extensions for text file names .

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
<sanliturk at ttnet.net.tr> wrote:
>
> Dear Sirs ,
>
> In \fpc\ and \lazarus\ directories , some text file names do not have an
> extension
> such as *.TXT . This situation is causing difficulty in MS Windows because
> when I ( or best , all of Windows users ) click on any one of these file
> names
> Windows Explorer ALWAYS asking to select a program to open the file .


That is the stupidity of Windows - which solely relying on a file
extension to determine the type.  Anyway, we can only suggest you use
a real OS... ;-)

On a more serious note. What version of Lazarus are you using, because
as far as I know, that was remedied ages ago...  In FPC (trunk), the
files have not been renamed.

Here is a listing of all README* files I could find in my Lazarus
directory. Note they all have extensions.

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./images/README.txt
./languages/README.txt
./ideintf/README.txt
./designer/jitform/README.txt
./packager/registration/README.txt
./packager/globallinks/README.txt
./debugger/windebug/fpwd/README.txt
./lcl/images/README.txt
./lcl/languages/README.txt
./lcl/nonwin32/README.txt
./lcl/widgetset/README.txt
./lcl/interfaces/gtk2/README.txt
./lcl/interfaces/win32/README.txt
./lcl/interfaces/qt/README.txt
./lcl/interfaces/fpgui/README.txt
./lcl/interfaces/carbon/README.txt
./components/dbexport/README.txt
./components/custom/README.txt
./components/images/examples/README.txt
./components/prettymessages/README.txt
./components/projecttemplates/README.txt
./components/sqldb/lib/README.txt
./components/printers/lib/README.txt
./components/sqlite/lib/README.txt
./components/simpleideintf/README.txt
./components/datadict/README.txt
./components/paradox/README.txt
./components/memds/lib/README.txt
./components/chmhelp/README.txt
./components/rtticontrols/lib/README.txt
./components/rtticontrols/README.txt
./components/synunihighlighter/lib/README.txt
./components/synunihighlighter/README.txt
./components/tachart/README.txt
./components/fpweb/demo/README.txt
./components/fpweb/README.txt
./components/synedit/languages/README.txt
./components/synedit/design/README.txt
./components/fpcunit/lib/README.txt
./components/fpcunit/ide/lib/README.txt
./components/fpcunit/ide/README.txt
./components/rx/lib/README.txt
./components/cgi/lib/README.txt
./components/cgi/ide/lib/README.txt
./components/cgi/ide/README.txt
./components/cgi/README.txt
./components/codetools/languages/README.txt
./components/codetools/examples/README.txt
./components/editortoolbar/images/README.txt
./components/README.txt
./tools/lazdatadesktop/README.txt
./tools/install/README.txt
./docs/xml/README.txt
./docs/html/README.txt
./README.txt
./examples/cleandir/README.txt
./examples/anchordocking/README.txt
./examples/exploremenu/README.txt
./examples/helpforpackage/README.txt
./examples/designerbaseclass/README.txt
./examples/treeview/README.txt
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Regards,
 - Graeme -


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