On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 13:51, Dave Crossland wrote: > MS-DOS used 3 letter file extensions to associate files with file > types,
> MacOS used resource forks, Not exactly. The file type lives in the file header, not the resource fork. But it is a concept peculiar to the mac which apple appears to be moving away from. > and VAX and UNIX had no uniform way > I think. VAX/VMS has always had file extensions and always used them to mark file types. It was (is) not possible to have a file without a "." in it. As I recall you could have about 30 characters before the "." and about 30 after it (or you could after ~1982 or so). > Today, file extensions can be any length on all major OS, Well, not really. Posix has a ~256 character in filename limit. VMS still has the limits above (~30 character extensions). _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
