Re: Calling a File for Encryption from outside of the Main Ada-95 Holding Folder.

[Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>]

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,

This opens up a whole new avenue for me to go down in more detail in the future - I mean the implications of file extensions.

For my present purposes I want to try and reduce the scope of file preparations to a few methods.

Using a word processor like MS Word might be the most intuitive to most of my potential users because it is something they are already familiar with and also there is the great liklihood of them wanting to open up older batch files and encrypt this for secure back up storage so that must be number one method.  Even for files being created in realtime it is still number one method now that I know about attaching the (.txt) extension - I can labour that as an essential condition.

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.