On 14/12/17 07:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
So it's an imperfect solution even as far as it goes, and a highly limiting way to do things. I'm sure it made good sense back when MS-DOS file systems ruled the Windows world, and 8.3 was just the way of things.
Even then there was RiscOS, which divorced file names from file types entirely. A file's type was part of its directory data, and that was what determined what happened when you double-clicked on it. You were still limited to only one default application (and icon, and so on) per file type, so OS/2 still wins on that front, but I always felt that having names determine types was somehow mucky.
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