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So I'm using Safari, and I want to look at this file, but it mangles it and
treats it as HTML:

  http://axpoint.axkit.org/example.axp.txt

So I decide to save to disk and look at it in my text editor

So I click "Save linked file as" and I am presented with a dialogue with
the suggested name "example.axp.html", with "example.axp" highlighted.
I replace ".html" with ".txt"

A modal dialogue appears:

"You cannot save this document with the extension ".txt" at the end of the
name. The required extension is ".html'

and in smaller print

"You can choose to use both, so that your file names ends in ".txt.html"


Of course I fucking should be able to fucking save the fucking thing with
whatever fucking name I fucking want. I'm the fucking user and the computer
is my fucking tool, not my fucking master. And, oh, so smart computer, you
know what I'm damn well going to do? Yes. Save the fucking file with the
name you fucking insist on, and then go into the bloody finder, take
advantage of the hateful default action for return, and rename the bloody
thing to .txt.

Which I did with no errors or warnings or nagging or swearing or V signs.

I should be able to do this from the fucking start. Get that? Or do I have to
re-program you with a fire axe?

Nicholas Clark
 

• Safari Nicholas Clark 17:08 on 26 May 2004
  • Re: Safari peter (Peter da Silva) 17:12 on 26 May 2004
    • too deep to show

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