This problem is also realted to often used "ZIP for everything". Sometimes I think we'd need a tiny universal loader, which will be associated with the particular extension, load the file, examine the contents and/or file size and start the right program. Does an utility like this already exist?
And of course, .SAM means "sample", it's used for years for sound samples. :-) Don't we have SDF or something, which is a generic Sam disk format?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Another example why I dislike .DSK format
On Jan 9, 2005, at 10:30 am, Aley Keprt wrote:
No, that's a reason why you don't like certain operating systems' assumption that a three letter extension can uniquely identify a file type. We know, for example, that a file 819200 bytes long doesn't represent a +3 disk.
.dsk is very convenient for simple images. But there have been discussions here of a more expandable disk format which we can adopt as standard, and we can call it what we like. Does .sam mean anything yet?
Andrew
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