On 13 August 2013 01:01, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Just a thought -- is there any need in this day and age
> for extensions to be limited to 3 characters?
>

There's a bug affecting PowerShell, which Microsoft have pretty much
confirmed that they won't fix, which means that longer extensions aren't
handled properly when used in PATHEXT. Longer extensions *can* be used, but
not for the purposes we want them :-(

Paul
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