On (30 Jan 95) [EMAIL PROTECTED] pedantically wrote... > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 12:45:08 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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). This message is (C) Copyright 1995 Johnathan Taylor! The distribution license is as follows:- You are free to distrubute freely, read and copy as many times as you like, Or not at all. No charges for the intelectual contents of this message may be made but a reasonable fee for the transportation of it is acceptable. In a similar manner a file-extension used for the first time by a program can be covered by a Copyright and as I was refering to a past event I wrote in a past tense. In the example Copyright above whilst I was typing it I was Copyrighting it and after I had typed it and it's license it was Copyrighted by me if I did not perform the act of typing the copyright notice it would be legally public domain in most parts of the world, whilst in a couple of places just the fact that I wrote the message means that I'd still own the rights to the message and contents! And to save you disputing it here look up international copyright law first, you may be suprised about how all encompasing it is! >> .BAS is normally a non-tokenised BASIC source listing > Don't believe you. PC BASIC people save their programs as ".BAS" all the > time. I don't care if you believe me or not! IBM-PC Basic is NOT the original BASIC! Microsoft BASIC for CP/M was about before PC was even conceived and IS a non- tokenised language... >> .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. Der. I did say '*normally*', you do like to argue just for the sake of it don't you! .CMD ARE ORIGINALLY CP/M-86 BINARY EXECUTABLES! MUCH LATER OS/2 stole the extension for it's ASCII batch files also called REXX programs. understand? >> .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? I refer you to the paragraph it was mentioned in! It's a flippin graphics image file... sigh >> 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. Autoexec CODE files also have an execute address attribute bits.... Programs DON'T need extensions anyway... only badly oganised users need them! The reason for me posting that list is NOT to dictate what users use on their own SAM's but to suggest extensions NOT to be placed on FTP sites unless they conform to the accepted norms for those extensions. I expect that one day people will leave the speccy programing behind and use featureless binary data-files ie OPENTYPE instead of ram-bound CODE files! OPENTYPE files are the nearest thing the SAM has to machine independant files. As such they can be directly uploaded and downloaded to and fro' FTP sites and BBS's without loss of contents! How would you feel if after you FTP'd a 100Megs of .au files to find out that they weren't sun .au files? or .tar.z files that weren't gzip'd tar archives? And before you say it .z IS a gzip'd extension .Z IS for a compressed files extension .gz is only required when sending a gzip'd tar to a brain-damaged 8.3 upper-case only filesystem like a PeeCee. And again don't bother trying to argue I KNOW this to be the case and won't take the bait! Johnathan. ... If everything is coming your way,you're in the wrong lane -- |Fidonet: Johnathan Taylor 2:2501/307.9 |Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
