Re: Don't take the extension too seriously

Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.sourcegear.com)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:00:52 -0500


Jacques Du Pasquier wrote:
> Abiword will refuse to open a file foo.doc if it is a plain text file.
> I would be better if it could see (or ask confirmation) that it is
> plain text and not word, and open it.

If you're using a Unix version of AbiWord, you can also use the File->Open
dialog, and select the file in the list, but then force it to open it
as Text by choosing that format from the file-type list. That selection
will override the extension. I don't think this is possible with Windows
(without the file contents detection you describe) because of the way its
dialogs have a 1:1 correspondence between type and extension.

-- 
Shaw Terwilliger


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