Re: Minor buggette in DIS 216d

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From: Philip McNab
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00

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On Tuesday, in article <829073535snz@dsl.co.uk>
     bhk@dsl.co.uk "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" wrote:

BK> Whilst you're at it, why oh why was the name COLOURS.CTX chosen for the
BK> file containing these settings?   It's *really* aggravating to me,
BK> because I use an editor (SEDT, a PC implementation of DEC's famous EDT
BK> editor) which retains context files for each edit performed.  From time
BK> to time, I'll decide to clear out *.CTX in various directories: bang goes
BK> my colour configuration.  Since the file defines a *configuration*, would
BK> it not have been more appropriate had the file type extension been .CFG?

Pending a rename, couldn't you just mark your colors.ctx file as
readonly?

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/ Philip McNab  // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk /

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