wine users - Sep 2008 - Notepad appends ".txt" to file names it looks for

The program I'm using is 4NEC2, a freeware antenna-modelling program.
I'm running wine-0.9.61 on Gentoo Linux on a Dell with Intel Core Duo
cpu.

  Let's say I'm working on a design that I call "fubar". 
4NEC2 will
create files with names like "fubar.NEC" and "fubar.log". 
4NEC uses
Notepad to open the files for viewing.  For some reason, my system
always seems to try opening them as "fubar.NE.txt" and
"fubar.lo.txt".
The last character of the extension is deleted, and ".txt" is
appended.

  When it tries to open files with these weird names, the result is a
"File not found" error.  Is there any way I can set Notepad not to be
so
"helpful"?  As a second option, 4NEC2 allows to specify another text
editor.  Is there an "Edit" equivalant for Wine, or can Wine launch
linux programs like vim or nano?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>

Walter Dnes wrote:
> The program I'm using is 4NEC2, a freeware antenna-modelling program.
> I'm running wine-0.9.61 on Gentoo Linux on a Dell with Intel Core Duo
> cpu.
> 
> Let's say I'm working on a design that I call "fubar". 
4NEC2 will
> create files with names like "fubar.NEC" and
"fubar.log".  4NEC uses
> Notepad to open the files for viewing.  For some reason, my system
> always seems to try opening them as "fubar.NE.txt" and
"fubar.lo.txt".
> The last character of the extension is deleted, and ".txt" is
appended.
> 
> When it tries to open files with these weird names, the result is a
> "File not found" error.  Is there any way I can set Notepad not
to be so
> "helpful"?  As a second option, 4NEC2 allows to specify another
text
> editor.  Is there an "Edit" equivalant for Wine, or can Wine
launch
> linux programs like vim or nano?
> 
> -- 
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>

Can you give a step by step guide of how to reproduce this?  I've downloaded
the program but I'm unsure of how to reproduce your problem.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>
wrote:
>  The program I'm using is 4NEC2, a freeware antenna-modelling program.
> I'm running wine-0.9.61 on Gentoo Linux on a Dell with Intel Core Duo
> cpu.
>
>  Let's say I'm working on a design that I call "fubar". 
4NEC2 will
> create files with names like "fubar.NEC" and
"fubar.log".  4NEC uses
> Notepad to open the files for viewing.  For some reason, my system
> always seems to try opening them as "fubar.NE.txt" and
"fubar.lo.txt".
> The last character of the extension is deleted, and ".txt" is
appended.
$ touch foobar.log
$ notepad foobar.log # file save

works fine
>  When it tries to open files with these weird names, the result is a
> "File not found" error.  Is there any way I can set Notepad not
to be so
> "helpful"?  As a second option, 4NEC2 allows to specify another
text
> editor.  Is there an "Edit" equivalant for Wine, or can Wine
launch
> linux programs like vim or nano?
Try notepad++

Forgot to reply to all and choose the right from address....

I filed a bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15130

Someone should confirm it....


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gert van den Berg
Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Wine] Notepad appends ".txt" to file names it looks for
To: Walter Dnes


On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>
wrote:
> 4) Edit ==> Input (.nec) file
>
>   At this point, I get the error dialog...
>
> File 'C:\4NEC2\MODELS\EXAMPLE1.NE.txt'
> does not exist
>
> Do you want to create a new file?
It would seem that if opening a file that doen not exist notepad
appends .txt to the filename.

Testcase:
notepad test.log

File "test.log.txt" does not exist

Do you want to create it?

This means that it is not possible to use notepad to crate a new file
with an extention different than txt with parameters....

It might still be acceptable for notepad to try opening a .txt file IF
IT exists. It should not offer te create a file with a different
extension than specified...

Gert