Notepad can be saved in any extension?

Question

Hi! What we type on notepad or save on, can it be saved with any extension? What is a BATCH file? What is it used for? And, how do we create autorun file? Where can I get more such info on file extensions, their uses, etc. ? Help!

Answer 1

Yeah. "Save as type - All Files" & add the extension.



Batch files are dos commands that form a pseudo-language.



Google is your friend:



http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file



Autorun:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun

http://autorun.moonvalley.com/autoruninf.htm



You're welcome.



As an aside, if you want a safe environment to work in and not do crazy things to your actual OS, use something like DOSBox:



http://www.dosbox.com/

Answer 2

wait wait wait, im dizzy. First the notepad have the extension *.txt, if windows detect an archive with this extension, then will open the file with the notepad (or other program if you changued this in the options). Information about the file extensions can be foun in this page:



http://filext.com/



That is a good one.



Now you can changue very easy one *.txt file in other kind of file. Many kind of files are writted in single text file and the only think that you need for changue one file from one kind to other kind, is just changue the extension. In that way you can convert one *.txt file in for example a web page *.htm just changuin the extension. This is the way in that i eddit my web page. Now there is a list of file extensions that i know that work perfectly if you changue the file extensions.



autorun.txt-----------autorun. i n f (information about the autorun of a Cd, or flash disc)

system.txt------------system. b a t (Windows start modify only if you know what are you doing)

start.txt----------------start. h t m (web page)

command.txt--------command. s y c (systat command file)



And this is not limited to *.txt files, the paintbrush bitmaps can be transformed to icons *.ico changuin only the extension, the icon can be in any size and will keep a tranparent color.



Now try an experiment, changue the extension of a *.bmp file to *.txt, you can see the code of the pixel color, try this with a black and white draw and a color draw, not try doing a small strip in the draw. This is funny but you musn´t save the file and return it to bmp, because the draw don´t will be usefull any more, for a reason that i don´t know you can´t modify *.exe, *.bmp, *.doc, *.xls, and other different files in the notepad, and you can´t returnit to his functional state if you changue something, no matter that you leave the file in his old state

Answer 3

Yes, you can save it in any format. Just select "All Files" from the dropdown box in the "Save As" dialog box. For the name, put something like



autoexec.bat



or whatever you want the file to be called, including file extension.



A batch file is a list of MS-DOS commands to be run at once, instead of having to type them in.



You can get some basic pointers on batch files here:



http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm



You can look up different file extensions here:



http://filext.com/

Answer 4

When you save a file in Notepad it automatically puts a .txt extension on the file, unless you enclose the entire name in double quotes - like



"index.html"



If you just save index.html, Notepad saves it as index.html.txt

Answer 5

Notepad is a (quick and dirty, nothin' fancy) NOTE PAD.



It is meant for quick jots (notes) for your convenience.



The files created with it can only be saved in text format, (.txt).



If ya wants ta git fancier, use Wordpad or a full-fledged desktop word processing program like Microsoft Word etc.



With Windows Vista, you can use Windows Word Processor for a more advanced text file program.

;-)