"Toby Inkster" <usenet200501 DeleteThis @tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.01.25.07.41.18.120307@tobyinkster.co.uk
> Red E. Kilowatt wrote:
>
>> The easiest way to deal with this is to make it a zip file. You can
>> also put a fake extension on it like mydoc.doc.remove and then tell
>> people to rename the file to mydoc.doc.
>
> Though the default setting on the most common operating system out
> there is set to not display file extensions in the file manager. So
> people may have problems changing the extension.
>
> St00pid I know.
That's true. I forgot about that. The problem with solving this kind of
issue is deciding what skill level the people have that you're dealing
with. I know from experience that Microsoft Word files will open in the
browser and then often crash the browser, so it's a good idea not to let
it open in the browser. You can put a link and say "Click on this link
and use 'Save As' to save it to your computer, and people will ignore
that and just click on it. Or they'll save it and not know where they
put it or how to access it. Same with a zip file or changing the
extension or forcing the browser to save instead of load the file.
When you get right down to it, the only safe thing to do is to design
everything so that even a moron can manage it, and in this case I think
that would mean using a txt file.
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