Notepad does it to me even WITH it unchecked!!
A real pet peeve of mine!

RP.




Ok, my two cents.

Outlook (express or otherwise) picks up a setting from the OS as to display
the file extension or not.

In any folder window goto 'View' -> 'Folder Options' -> the 'View' tab.
There's a checkbox labled "Hide file extensions for known file types". (it
may be labled slightly differently depending on OS version)

When this is checked, and it is by default, Outlook hides what it
interprets
as the file extension. in the case of "badfile.gif.pif"  the '.pif' part is
hidden. Hence some people will see it and other will not.

This also has other consequences too. The one that always annoys me is thet
if it is checked, and you save a file in notepad with a file extension
other
than 'txt' (like "example.asm") it will append ".txt" to it so your left
with "example.asm.txt".

This has always been a pet peeve of mine...

-Denny

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