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| February 7th, 2005 12:04 PM |
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| chingkong |
I've always been bad about calling things "thingys" lol. Here's my question.
Catchow said "Everything is a file. That minibanner is a gif but it could be one of many different sorts. . . bmp, tff, png etc"
I'm confused, I thought bmp, tif, png, jpg, gif, etc. were different formats for saving pictures and files were something else, like documents or written stuff. |
| February 8th, 2005 02:22 AM |
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| Catchow |
On a computer, anything that can be saved is as a file of some sort. Call them thingys if you like, but each extension is a kind of file. Different names have different applications. . . some as text, some as pics, some as programs. For example, an exe file might get you a program but it is going to execute a command on your computer. The exe file will open something else. If you download some graphics, they come with an exe file. Today I tried to download some wallpaper from a wallpaper site. It was in an exe file. There was a trojan buried in it and my anti virus refused to open it after it was scanned.
Ching a computer is just one huge filing cabinet of many assorted things. The file extensions just help to sort them into something that we can recognize. I have seen pics broken down into gobbelty gook numbers symbols and other assorted things that we would call text. Do this. . . .
Run a search on your computer. Start> Search> Files or folders> jpg
Then do it for gif. You will see that they are all files. |
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