From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.4.138 with SMTP id 10mr9465010qar.8.1378402948139; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:42:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.110.6 with SMTP id hw6mr619647igb.13.1378402948105; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.bbs-scene.org!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!j7no305961qai.0!news-out.google.com!p7ni960qas.0!nntp.google.com!j7no305954qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:42:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.59.203.113; posting-account=7Oy7OQoAAABhVYFOo553Cn1-AaU-bSfl NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.59.203.113 References: <43c22997-0bb7-4ad6-879f-c5b2d8584f8a@googlegroups.com> <80934511-70fb-4f2b-ac4a-30ce5fd4a34c@googlegroups.com> <544893cf-82aa-4f83-9147-f2d6c8437ffa@googlegroups.com> <3a03b029-420d-4a4d-81ff-dbcbc0b3df37@googlegroups.com> <9974aee4-b264-4c3e-8952-39a0dad0609a@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Calling a File for Encryption from outside of the Main Ada-95 Holding Folder. From: Eryndlia Mavourneen Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 17:42:28 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17139 Date: 2013-09-05T10:42:27-07:00 List-Id: 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 wrot= e: >=20 > > 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 ma= rvellous. > . . . 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 pr= ocessed by a compiler -- or any language files for that matter (that I am a= ware of) -- are really just text files. The .ada, .ads, .adb, ..., just ide= ntify what the content of the file is and, therefore, what program to use a= s the *default* program to open them. Nothing keeps you from opening a .ada= file with a text editor like Notepad. -- Eryndlia Mavourneen (KK1T) >=20 >=20 >=20 > Hi Eryndlia, >=20 > . . . > Summarising, > I am going to say this is order of selection of preapartion software. >=20 > 1) Word processor. > 2) Wordpad. > 3) Notepad. >=20 > with the all important stipulation that the files are saved with a (.txt)= file extension. >=20 > How does that come across to you. >=20 > 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 o= n 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)