On 14 May 2006, at 02:41, Philip J Robar wrote: > > By the way, I was able to edit the file with textedit after copying > it to my home directory. No extension, type, or creator was added > or changed by my doing so. You would have to change the owner and > group back to the expected values after cp'ing it back to where it > belongs. I'm wondering if he's got the "Show all file extensions" ticked or unticked in Finder preferences, that the .txt extension is being added automagically to his .conf. Stroller.