On Friday 06 July 2012, you wrote: > CBM DOS filetypes are similar in function to beloved msdos filename > extensions, aren't they? not at ALL. > Yet you don't insist on using FOO.EXE for data files instead of e.g. > FOO.DAT, do you? for the most part i find it utterly stupid to draw conclusions from the filename to its content. the one and only data file i have ever used on pc for my own stuff was named "config.sys", btw =) > Why then examples in the books about programming data access using > sequential files uses SEQ files? Do you think the authors were stupid? they were making examples for TEXT files. -- http://www.hitmen-console.org http://magicdisk.untergrund.net http://www.pokefinder.org http://ftp.pokefinder.org Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway <Andrew S. Tanenbaum> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Sat Jul 7 05:12:32 2012
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