Re: associating extensions with applications
- From: David Fletcher <fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:55:35 +0000
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 15:36, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
Does Linux, or more specifically the Gnome desktop, have a widget like
the one in Windows that associates file extensions with applications so
that, for example, when I double-click on a ".txt" file it opens in my
favorite text editor? Do file extensions have any significance in
Linux? Thanks for the help! -- Jerry
Linux is much more clever than that. So far as I know it takes no notice of
file name extensions. It looks at the header information inside the file
itself.
For instance, today I copied in an old file that was originally prepared using
Word Perfect under windoze. Hovering over the file in konqueror the bar at
the bottom tells me that it knows it is a Word Perfect file. Changing the
file name extension from wpd to doc makes no difference - it still knows that
this is a Word Perfect file. This one is a very simple file, but Open Office
opens it just fine and displays all the text in it very nicely, thanks very
much.
Dave
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