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Add .txt to ADDA output files

Open alkichigin opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

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ADDA output files have no filename extension, although (for now) they are always txt-files.

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Add ".txt" at the end of output files

alkichigin avatar Sep 11 '20 10:09 alkichigin

This is somewhat related to #183 . Anyway, the next step is to understand what is the standard (or several standards) existing for file extensions. While it is clear that extension is universally used on Windows, I thought before, that for Unix users absent file extension is OK (and is commonly assumed to denote text files). If however, the latter opinion is universally outdated, it will give us motivation to make some changes.

Moreover, if we decide to add some extension to the output files, .txt is not the only option. Consider, e.g., .dat that is already used for some of input files by ADDA.

myurkin avatar Sep 13 '20 09:09 myurkin

*.txt is the only file extension that is straightforwardly opens as plain-text file in all of the operating systems. I suggest switching from extension-less to *.txt file output until this issue is resolved thoroughly.

alkichigin avatar Jan 31 '21 16:01 alkichigin