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From: Eryndlia Mavourneen <eryndlia@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Calling a File for Encryption from outside of the Main Ada-95 Holding Folder.
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:42:27 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-09-05T10:42:27-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1490915-0b35-4420-8546-2b31b1a65e73@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd00d464-d5ed-4d9b-a892-5ec1a9509351@googlegroups.com>

On Thursday, September 5, 2013 11:50:35 AM UTC-5, Austin Obyrne wrote:
> On Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:08:44 PM UTC+1, Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, September 5, 2013 11:00:16 AM UTC-5, Austin Obyrne wrote: > > Knowing about the file extensons drop down menu options menu is just marvellous. > . . . Hi Austin, The file type (file extension) such as .txt or .ada, etc., is just to specify the content of the file. Ada files to be processed by a compiler -- or any language files for that matter (that I am aware of) -- are really just text files. The .ada, .ads, .adb, ..., just identify what the content of the file is and, therefore, what program to use as the *default* program to open them. Nothing keeps you from opening a .ada file with a text editor like Notepad. -- Eryndlia Mavourneen (KK1T)
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Eryndlia,
> 
> . . .
> Summarising,
> I am going to say this is order of selection of preapartion software.
> 
> 1) Word processor.
> 2) Wordpad.
> 3) Notepad.
> 
> with the all important stipulation that the files are saved with a (.txt) file extension.
> 
> How does that come across to you.
> 
> Austin.

Unless your encryption algorithm is designed to only work with text files, I would think that any file could be encrypted and successfully decrypted on the other end.  That way, the receiver of the file can decrypt it and use whatever form is useful, such as a Word document.  If that person desires a text file, then the Save As... option can be used.

Does this make sense to you?

Btw, if you wish to take any of this offline, since this group is concerned with Ada, please write me directly at eryndlia at gmail dot com.

-- Eryndlia Mavourneen (KK1T)

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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-04 11:10 Calling a File for Encryption from outside of the Main Ada-95 Holding Folder Austin Obyrne
2013-09-04 19:37 ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-04 19:47   ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-09-04 20:23     ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-04 20:37     ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-04 21:31       ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-05  5:39         ` Simon Wright
2013-09-05  7:16           ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-05  7:56           ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-05 11:33             ` Simon Wright
2013-09-05 15:46               ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-05 16:00               ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-05 16:08                 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-09-05 16:50                   ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-05 17:42                     ` Eryndlia Mavourneen [this message]
2013-09-05 14:40         ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-09-05 15:38           ` Austin Obyrne
2013-09-05  3:16 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-09-05  6:57   ` Austin Obyrne
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