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 10.224.74.72 with SMTP id t8mr9285733qaj.4.1378399835675; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:50:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.24.132 with SMTP id u4mr92257qef.17.1378399835623; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!j7no302659qai.0!news-out.google.com!p7ni960qas.0!nntp.google.com!j7no302649qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 09:50:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9974aee4-b264-4c3e-8952-39a0dad0609a@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.173.125.168; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.173.125.168 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: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:50:35 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 3604 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183316 Date: 2013-09-05T09:50:35-07:00 List-Id: 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 marv= ellous. > . . . 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 proc= essed by a compiler -- or any language files for that matter (that I am awa= re of) -- are really just text files. The .ada, .ads, .adb, ..., just ident= ify 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 f= ile 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 fu= ture - I mean the implications of file extensions. For my present purposes I want to try and reduce the scope of file preparat= ions 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 a= nd 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 o= ne 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) f= ile extension. How does that come across to you. Austin.