OpenEuphoria

Re: File extension suggestion

• Posted by Talvitie <smtoa at SAUNALAHTI.FI> Oct 27, 1999
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I think this is a really good idea!

--Talvitie

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Aihe: File extension suggestion


>Just an idea that came to my mind: with all this impending =
multi-platform
>support for Euphoria, perhaps we ought to modify the way we use =
extensions.
>Here are the changes I think would make the most sense:
>
>*.ex, *.e =3D Euphoria files which can be run on ANY platform without
>modification
>*.exd. *.ed =3D Euphoria files which specifically run under MS-DOS
>
>This way, we would have dedicated extensions for both platform-specific =
and
>platform-independent Euphoria programs. (I suppose, to be consistent, =
we'd
>want EX.EXE to become EXD.EXE as well, so that the platform executable
>corresponds to its platform-dependent file extension.)
>
>Anyway, it's just a thought; perhaps this is more of a long-term future
>idea, when Macintosh and/or BeOS ports are closer to reality.
>
>
>Hep yadda,
>Gabriel Boehme
>
>
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