No, it is not a good idea at all. Files with some defined structure (header,
blocks, ...) should also have a defined file extension. Otherwise it
complicates work for editors, utilities and so on.
The only case when the extension is not needed to be defined are various
binary dumps (like disk sector copies, memory dumps or also pure VGA charset
doenloaded from VGA RAM or VGA ROM)
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Datum: 11. 2. 2025 2:49:26
Předmět: Re: [Freedos-devel] proposal for extension of font format V8F
"Hi,
On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:12 AM, Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel <freedos-
de...@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi! I am still working on font editor Kasmar (WIP version here: http://
www.laaca.borec.cz/kasmar_f.zip )
> > And I would like to add support for format V8F which is used in FreeDOS
installer.
>
> Since it is not complex and I don’t know to what level you deciphered the
existing V8F format, I’ll describe it here.
>
> The initial block contains the format identifier string “V8FONT” + CRLF.
This is used to identify it as a
> V8 Power Tools Font File. (Side note… When used with VFONT, if this string
is not present, the file
> is assumed to be a simple flat bitmap font.)
Naive suggestion:
If they all have embedded text to identify them as V8 font files, just
avoid the redundant *.V8F extension and use .866 or .853 or whatever
codepage as actual extension. If that is confusing, stuff them in a
.\V86\ subdir.
(I may be forgetting that some esoteric code pages have numbers
greater than 999.)
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