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Robert Hull

funny sentence, don't You think ?-)

Well did I say anything like that? I very much doubt that you use extension for example *exe* for all Your files or no extension at all. I don't believe you always look into that file to see what fileformat it is and then manualy run appropriate application. Neither do I believe You having an universal utility to decide what application to run. It's slimply imposible to incorporate and maintain all know file formats despite slowing the interaction by analysis of each type. (*) Common mime tipes and extensions are defined not only in M$ os'es but both kde, gnome, mc, run-mailcap and other software. All these guess what application to run accorging the filename analysis based on the extension. Not using this feature would lead to complete anarchy in your filesystem making it realy difficult to manage. ( of course You could replace the extension with some other flag sored in the filesystem, but this is not gonna happen becouse it's ridiculous ).

I'm not gonna invent any new extension. I just want to have an easy way to store html archives and use them. My requests were: 1. compressed format 2. one file for each archive 4. using available tools and not to have to start any new project messing up the world with a new fileformat (with "new features" or additional functionality as you call it), like M$ often does

I find tgz archives sufficinet for this purpose, just need to implement the functionality introducing new extension and having the applications ( konqueror, lynx, opera, whtatever ) to treat it properly (best would be on the fly). Of course I can do this on my own by a simple script. But this would be neither "on the fly" nor "application integrated" begavior. So I decited to ask in this forum, wheter someone shares my ideas and would support me in asking this feature from software developers.

No illusion, would you like to open an tgz archvive by a browser all the time you hit enter in a file manager? Of course a simple script could handle this as well.

see (*) and tell how many are there and how would you manage all the kinds of format without using extensions saving both Your time and the CPU time :-p

Vit Gottwald

P.S. I just find there exists something like this so called war archives, though they are actually jar archives, they changed extension, why the hell ?-) P.S.2. I realy don't like people blaming others from illusion or living in mith based on their own experience without analysing and properly critisizing the facts.