On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:06 PM, bill lam wrote:
> The files recent.dat and winpos.dat use extension 'dat' that I
> associate with video in file manager. This extension suggested its
> content may be binary.  Why they didn't use ijs extension same as
> other files?


I want to distinguish 3 types of config file:

 *.ijs are user-defined scripts, e.g. startup.ijs

 *.cfg are user-defined configurations, and are typically not valid scripts

 *.dat store session information, and are defined by the session, e.g.
recently-used files, or window positions

The *.dat files are now all in plain text, but in theory could be
binary. The "dat" extension seemed appropriate for these.
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