[19985] in bugtraq
Re: Invisible file extensions on Windows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick FitzGerald)
Sun Apr 1 23:53:23 2001
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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:25:38 +1300
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From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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Mimi Carpenter <mcarpenter@SAGPH.ORG> wrote:
> Actually, scrap objects are useful to WRITERS -- not of code but of
> documents -- who are using Office.
>
> Create a Word document, select all or part of the document, and drag the
> selection onto the desktop or to a window. You will have a new file
> called "Document scrap 'something or other'". This can be useful when
> you want to keep scraps of text around without using the clipboard or
> notes.
"useful" is a bit of an understatement.
It is to support exactly (and only?) that functionality that SHS and
SHB file types exist.
Without them this little-known and less-used feature of the OS would
not exist.
--
Nick FitzGerald
Computer Virus Consulting Ltd.
Ph/FAX: +64 3 3529854
