Re: Editing "Forth" (PostScript).

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 14:13 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 3/23/2024 1:10 PM, Diego Garcia wrote:

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 09:44:54 -0700 (Seattle), Relf wrote:
 

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Snag a .PDF file, any PDF file.
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Make it a .TXT file & open it in a text editor.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
 
Only on that dummy OS known as Microslop does one first
have to change the suffix to "TXT."

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Only a braindead OS and its mentally ill "developers" would create and
distribute files with no extension.
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Is it an executable?  A text file?  A library?  An image file?  A
gnumeric spreadsheet?  A LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet?
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"duhhh... let me waste lots of time opening a terminal and typing the
whole file name to ask 'file' to open the file and look for 'magic
bytes' and try to find them in the 'magic' database.  I sure hope the
file type is in there.. duh..."
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What a waste of personal time and computing cycles.
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This!  Is!  Linux!

A lot of Linux file managers use the file's magic number to display a
file type in the same way Windows does. Also, Windows doesn't know
every file type, there are plenty that just display the generic
"[EXT] file".
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