On 29 Jan 95 00:14:26 +0000, Johnathan Taylor said: > The .ARC extension is actually copyrighted! It belongs to System Enhancments > Assosiations ie the people who wrote ARC/UNARC originally.
Excuse me... how on earth do you copyright a file extension?? I'll call my files whatever I want, thank you... (and btw, a thing is "copyright" - not "copyrighted" unless you are referring particularly to the action of copyrighting it). > .BAS is normally a non-tokenised BASIC source listing Don't believe you. PC BASIC people save their programs as ".BAS" all the time. > .COM .EXE .CMD are binary executables *normally* ".CMD" is the name given to batch files and/or REXX programs on OS/2, which are ASCII and not binary. > .PIC .PCX .GIF .FIF .TIF .JPG .IMG etc are all pre-defined extensions that > infer a definate file structure to transfer graphics that should not be used > unless the file complies with the required structure. Then what is a ".PIC" file? > Why does the SAM *NEED* three character filename extensions on its own > filesystem? The normal directory command shows exactly what type each file is > as it already has the filetype in compressed form, why waste the name-length? Because most of your average files are CODE files, and the directory information which says "CODE 65238,112643" is of almost exactly no use to you whatsoever. imc
