[plt-scheme] Multimedia file format questions

That feature actually only adds the extension if it doesn't exist. If
DrScheme's code is changed to make the filter a "DrScheme
file|*.scm;*.bjava" instead of "DrScheme file|*.scm", or something
like that, the extension will not be added to bjava files.


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:59:33 -0400, Richard C. Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> Lo, on Sunday, October 3, Don Blaheta did write:
> 
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> > Quoth Robert Bruce Findler:
> > > On Oct 2, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Don Blaheta wrote:
> > > > Another problem I had forgotten about: several of my students have
> > > > reported that DrScheme doesn't let them save files with the extension
> > > > .bjava (instead converting it to .bjava.scm or just .scm).  I haven't
> > > > been able to reproduce it; is there some option I should tell them to
> > > > look for?
> > >
> > > I'm not sure. What OS?
> >
> > Windows, I think.  Like I said, I haven't been able to reproduce it.
> 
> It's been quite a while since I've used Windows for any length of time,
> but I vaguely remember encountering this problem myself, in a different
> context.  If I remember correctly, this is actually a Windows "feature",
> not a property of DrScheme.  The idea is to allow casual users to save
> their Word document as "Letter to Mom" and have Windows automatically
> add the appropriate extension, so the user (who probably has their
> Explorer configured to hide extensions anyway) doesn't have to think
> about it.
> 
> To disable this, try putting double quotes around the filename in the
> Save As box.  (It's a hack, but I think it works.)
> 
> Richard
>