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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!spasun.tpa.com.au!news.adelaide.on.net!news.ade.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,list.freebsd-questions,local.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Documentation and Installation of "Everything" to 2.1 Gig drive. Date: 30 May 1996 01:59:02 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4oivd6$ado@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4o7j45$ntr@zip0.zipnet.net> <4o7k3m$oa9@zip0.zipnet.net> <4ob4en$6a4@nntp.igs.net> <4og31v$8jv@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4og31v$8jv@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>, Neil Brendan Clark <nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote: >Bah! I hate .htm file extensions, it really offends my sense of aesthetics. >Why not write a shell script that makes them into proper .html files >instead? That's what I always do - of course you have to remember to change all the links as well, and convert them to lower case, and get rid of all the drive letters that people insist on leaving in and... 8-( >OK, I know I am being OTT here but the .htm extension only serves to >reinforce the Microsoft brain damage that is all prevalent these days. Actually I started doing this after seeing a particularly clueless newspaper reporter say that most of the HTML servers on the Internet were running Windows NT "and you can tell because the URLs all end in .htm" -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk