On 10/12/2010 11:30 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 10:49:18 luigi scarso wrote:

Yes; a good point for three letters for suffix is compatibility with
old OS and perhaps MIME questions.

What? You mean DOS? And FAT?
Maybe we should restrict our coding as well to ascii...

Since the almost total disappearance of 3.5" floppies and bare iso9660
CDs, I do not care about DOS/FAT any more.

But as far as I know, windows still bases its file type detection
on extension, so that is something to keep in mind.

Best wishes,
Taco
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