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Originally Posted by riththewarluid
I appreciate your response, but I'm not finding it very helpful. How can I create a file that has no "kind" (by which I mean extension)? I have tried again by making a blank .txt file with the name DO_FACTORY_RESET and that did nothing either.
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This is the first you mentioned you are using a mac. The way your posts are worded I assumed microsoft, which apparently insists on an extention but only grudgingly show it if someone jumps through hoops.
To answer your question "How?",
Code:
touch DO_FACTORY_RESET
would have worked. unixlike OS do not require file "extension", the only difference between "a.txt" and "a" is the file name field in the directory is 4 characters longer. There is nothing magic about the "." and there is no "extension" field in the directory structure. Some applications parse the file name and infer information if it ends in ".txt" or whatever. Most image viewers care more about the contents of the first few bytes inside a file more than what the file name might be and
Code:
unzip bookname.epub
works just fine without having to rename it bookname.zip first.