Nance opened this issue on Apr 19, 2000 ยท 1 posts
Nance posted Wed, 19 April 2000 at 4:00 AM
Ok, just a minor pet peeve, but the post below about the lost author info on the shoes made me consider the following. I'd like to suggest that folks stop naming their files just "readme.txt". Please add something else, like your name or the work's name, so that it will have its own unique filename. (Or, are there some of us still using an OS that has trouble with long filenames?) Seems a lot of folks are simply overwriting this vital info when they unzip or transfer another file with the same "readme.txt" filename into the same folder. ...and, while I'm at it, if I were Emperor of the Universe, I would also have all my subjects add their own name to their zip files, and keep a consistant filename on their zips and the associated thumbnails. I currently do this to everthing I download and then keep the renamed zip & thumb combo offline on CDR. As I have become familiar with you guys, often it is easier to remember which of you did a piece rather than what you named it. Adding the author to the zip's filename makes archiving much, much simpler. Ok, now that you all know how to save me time, you may resume what you were doing. ;-)