Alan Horkan wrote: > > We could have the extension .abiword but we dont. > You never know someone might actually try porting Abiword to 16bit (and > maybe the rest of Abi Office Suite la la la)
That'd be the day! :-) > but seriously > Are there downsides to using a 3 letter suffix in this case? Yes. The monopoly M$ don't give a crap about already used 3-letter extension, and not too unfrequently they "reuse" extensions that has been in use for decades by other programs. This has a real impact. Let me know if you need a few examples. With that in mind, I can't for my life see that they'd ever care about an extension already used in a free software (in M$ wordbook that's "communism" I believe) wordprocessor. > if you want i could try and find out the necessary window registry > settings to hide the extension from "the general public". Please don't. :-) /Mike
