[CrackMonkey] Jesux

[Bernard]

03Apr2001 09:22AM (+0100) From [sneakums at zork.net] sneakums [Sean Neakums]
> 1) He called it mysig.txt.txt; Windows' file-extension-hiding gar
>    strikes again.

GAR! indeed.  I had reason today to bash out a MacPerl script
to help a colleague who was stalled by Excel's limit on the
number of data points that it can use in a plot.  My script
simply spat out lines each of which contained space delimited
pairs of x/y points.  The file type was TEXT and the nominal
creator TTXT (SimpleText or TeachText, the closest a Mac gets
to plain text).  Excel *refused* to read the file appropriately
unless I changed the name to foo.dat (instead of foo).
This of course means that they insist on doing it the Redmond
way on the Mac platform instead of either taking a peek at
the first few lines of the file or doing it the Mac way and
honouring the darned resource fork.
	Excel is so windows-o-centric that it even creates a
registry when you install it.  I doubt if there's a RegEdit
equivalent for the Mac.

> 2) Word is capable of saving in plain text.

For small values of "plain".

	Bernard

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