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| From | Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today |
| Date | 2017-04-19 07:16 +0100 |
| Organization | Fix this later |
| Message-ID | <od6v5v$5c4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 19/04/17 07:09, jim.j.barlow@gmail.com wrote: > What would you think when a professional programmer has software that > produces log files with the filename ending in ".txt" that contain > bytes with the value of "0"? I contend it is no longer a text file. > The vendor refused to correct the behavior. There is no law requiring files with a ".txt" extension to be text files. And, when everyone was using ".doc" for program documentation stored in text files, Microsoft started using the ".doc" extension for binary files, but I don't recall you complaining about that. File extensions are not standardised. Anyone can use any extension for any purpose. About ten years ago, I gave someone a bunch of JPEGs and asked him to turn each one into a PowerPoint slide. He solved this difficult task by renaming each ".jpg" to ".ppt", and was then appalled to find that for some bizarre reason this didn't work. Never trust a file extension. -- Richard Heathfield Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line 4 vacant - apply within
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Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 15:45 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-04-11 10:06 +0200
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 19:14 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Diesel <me@privacy.net> - 2017-04-13 01:29 +0000
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 02:45 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today jim.j.barlow@gmail.com - 2017-04-18 23:09 -0700
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-04-19 07:16 +0100
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-04-19 09:38 +0200
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today jim.j.barlow@gmail.com - 2017-04-28 20:34 -0700
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