26 Jul
2010
26 Jul
'10
4:51 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Pete Turnbull
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:26 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Spitting expletives
On 26/07/2010 19:22, J.G.Harston wrote:
Or open it from within the editor.... Gnu Emacs does not register itself so it can be
selected as an "Open With" choice on Windows and I don't feel like futzing
with it. So I just start Emacs and c-x c-v. (Disclaimer: I'm only learning/using
Emacs because of its historical significance - I use EDT on our VAX-11s for the same
reason. I'm really a vi fan.)
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".