Jpegs on WinXP

[jd997uk]

This "feature" of Windows has been pointed out many times before. You can have a bit of fun re-naming a reasonably sized .jpeg to .doc and see the poor sod open it up in Word, tied my mates machine up for ages - oh how we laughed  :-D

-Cecelia: Didnt know about ACDsee, but DirOpus8 for windows ALWAYS opens it correctly, no matter what suffix is used (or indeed if none is used at all). Just goes to show what quality of programmers the Amiga has always had - past and present.

-jd

[jd997uk]

by adolescent

Just a note that some filetypes don't need extensions in Windows. For instance, Office documents haven't needed them since Office 2000 (ie. File.doc and File will both open in Word). The technology is there, but alas it's not available for ever filetype yet. It would be nice if other operating systems would support filetypes like Amiga does. It makes it a hell of a lot easier.

This is true, but this is only for docs created within word itself. Opening a deliberately mis-named file in word causes havoc (try mis-naming a small avi/mpeg to see).

-jd

ps: just found out my version of Word2002 supplied with my Toshiba laptop had a document size limit of 32MB - never seen that previously. IIrc Word used to have a page limit (65536?)

-jd