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Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Jul 30 12:04:31 EDT 1999 
Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com>:
> > OK.  Will giving the filename ".\\intriguer" work for this?  And,
> > given that the filename is going through the C library, will leaving
> > it as "./intriguer" work?
> 
> Yes and yes. File Manager doesn't know what to make of an 
> extensionless file name, but that's OK. For years I created comma 
> delimited files as ".cdf". Then one day I installed IE 4, and they 
> magically became "Channel Definition Files".
> 
> This is good. It means that while Ionesco is dead, his spirit 
> lives on.

:-)

"Six Filenames In Search Of An Editor".  (Yes, I know, that's Pirandello.)

I've been considering using .ini format anyway; it's a good match to the
problem domain and the module to parse it is just lying there in 1.5.2.
So I guess I'll go with "./intriguer.ini".

Thanks!
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