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[John Park]

On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 09:22 AM, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 8:42 AM -0500 1/23/04, Raoul Armfield wrote:
>> However Alex was stating that, regardless of the file extension, you 
>> should be able
>> to assign or reassign that file type to be opened by any program
>> manually.
>
> Yes, but that is no solution to the problem being addressed by the 
> original questioner. It is, at best, a treatment of a symptom but does 
> not go towards an understanding of the problem or a solution for the 
> user. The problem is that the files are improperly named. The solution 
> is to correct the names.
>
>> You tell Alex to attempt your exercise but have you tried his?
>
> His technique is familiar to anyone involved in trouble-shooting. It 
> is familiar to me. It is a useful measure that happens to be 
> counter-productive for this issue. If the user implements Alex' 
> measure and goes on to send the file to another user (Windows or Mac 
> OS X), they will unknowingly pass along an unexplained problem.
> -- 
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