Linux uses the file's MIME Type instead of just trusting the file extension (which are often changed in the Windows world by virus-writers to get people to install bad things). File extensions are mostly so the user knows what's going on.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 21, 2008 9:16 AM, Daniel Hollocher <<a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@openleadership.org">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@openleadership.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">Its one python script that starts a terminal based upon another input file. So one problem for me is getting the text input files associated with the python script. It seems ubuntu ignores file extensions.
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