[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS 1.41 (RISC OS) - Zip size max?
- From: Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 00:17:31 +0200
In message <3852ffe04e.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Alan Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Generally you want notypes set to no.
>
> However, if
> 1 you want to use the files from both RISC OS and Windows
> and
> 2 you have given file extensions (e.g. /TXT) to all relevant files
> and
> 3 you haven't got correct definitions for ALL PC filetypes inside
> Lanman98
> then you might want to turn notypes on.
>
> The reason is that files without extensions which also don't pick up a
> type from the mappings file will gain a ,nnn tail, which Windows
> doesn't like.
In what way? Windows is perfectly happy with ,xxx extensions. Those
are only given to files that do not have a mapping, so they are likely
to be RISC OS specific files, with which Windows cannot do much
anyway. But even with the ,nnn extension you can load the files in a
Windows editor, for instance.
I find it very difficult to imagine any kind of circumstances where
setting Notypes to Y makes much sense. With RISC OS ,xxx extensions
enabled (i.e., Notypes=N) all the cross-platform files that you might
want to use under Windows as well can be mapped to a proper extension
and all the rest is of no interest to the Windows side anyway. So you
do not lose anything by having the RISC OS ,xxx extensions.
Martin
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