26 Jul
2010
26 Jul
'10
8:25 p.m.
On 26/07/2010 19:22, J.G.Harston wrote:
Rick Murray wrote:
>> ".bbc" - Russell format
>> ".bas" - Text
>> "." - Acorn format
> No, very *BAD* to use *.bas - double click on those, I'll have the fun
> of watching Visual Basic trying to load a tokenised BASIC code. :-)
"Well, don't do that, then," said the helpdesk techie.
.bas is the standard extension for textual
representation of BASIC (*any*
BASIC) code. If some application decide to stupidly associate themselves
with it and try to execute it, that's their stupid fault.
I'm with Jonathan. .bas is the accepted extension for all sorts of
BASIC files, and using something else is only going to cause confusion
elsewhere. Double-clicking is supposed to "run" a file or cause it to
be executed; if the only BASIC interpreter you have is the VB executable
and it tries to load the file you double-clicked, well that's because
the doubler-clicker was daft enough to do an inappropriate thing :-)
The appropriate thing, if you want to edit a file, would be to
right-click and select "open with" -- assuming we're talking about a
Windows OS. Or use whatever weird combination of key and mouse performs
"open" rather than "run".
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York