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Re: System variables cleanup

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heyrickmail wrote:
> There was a discussion on the BBC mailing list a while back where
> JGHarston and myself really don't see eye to eye - and this is the
> extension to use for tokenised BBC BASIC files. On my system, it is
> ".basic" which loads into a program of mine to detokenise and toss to
 
The basis of which was that the appropriate extension for Acorn
tokenised BASIC files is "" (ie, null string), as that is the
extension that has been used for Acorn tokenised BASIC files ever
since the first one was saved 30 years ago today, and
retrospectively changing to ".basic" would, eg, require millions of
CHAIN statements in existing software to be changed.
 
> Notepad. I can't use the suggested ".bas" for that will auto-start
 
..and ".bas" is the appropriate extension for a text file containing
untokenised Basic, of any type of Basic.
 
> And for what it is worth, I quite like the RISC OS method. It is
> flexible, it doesn't need "associations" to be set up between the filer
 
...and and others have said, if you don't like what application a
file has been associated with, just drag it to the other
application that you want to use it with. After all, the file
associations are to tell the operating system what to do with the
file in the absense of you the user saying otherwise.
 
I regularly have Edit and StrongEd on the taskbar at the same time
and drag things to whichever editor I want to edit that particular
file in at the particulr time.
 
On my PC I drag (or SendTo) JPEG, GIF, HTML, CSV, whatever files to
whatever I want to do with them at that particular point. The computer
can't read my mind and decide "oh, right now he actually wants to edit
this (whatever) file, not display it." 
 
-- 
J.G.Harston - jgh@mdfs.net - mdfs.net/jgh
Our chief weapons are 'who', 'ps -aux', 'kill -9', and a fanatical
devotion to 'reboot -q'.

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System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-27 16:11 +1300
  Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-27 05:13 +0100
    Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-27 18:29 +1300
  Re: System variables cleanup Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-27 21:55 +0000
    Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-28 12:27 +1300
      Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 06:33 +0100
        Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-30 00:29 +1300
          Re: System variables cleanup Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 13:14 +0000
            Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-30 11:50 +1300
              Re: System variables cleanup Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 23:22 +0000
                Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-30 13:19 +1300
                Re: System variables cleanup Nick Roberts <tigger@orpheusinternet.co.uk> - 2011-11-30 21:41 +0000
              Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-30 08:33 +0100
              Re: System variables cleanup Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-30 21:38 +0000
                Re: System variables cleanup "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 08:20 +0000
              Re: System variables cleanup Vince M Hudd <vinceh@softrock.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 16:00 +0000
                Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-02 08:38 +0100
                Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-12-03 12:05 +1300
                Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-03 06:31 +0100
                Re: System variables cleanup Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2011-12-03 10:02 +0000
                Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-12-04 11:39 +1300
          Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-30 08:20 +0100
            Re: System variables cleanup Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-12-01 10:22 +1300
            Re: System variables cleanup Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-11-30 23:59 +0000
              Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 07:21 +0100
        Re: System variables cleanup jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2011-12-01 14:15 +0000
          Re: System variables cleanup Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-02 08:35 +0100
  Re: System variables cleanup druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-27 22:47 +0000
    Re: System variables cleanup druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-30 20:19 +0000

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