2008/10/19 George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
Well, not really. Posix has a ~256 character in filename limit. VMS
still has the limits above (~30 character extensions).
Thanks for your corrections, I love this kind of trivia :-)
Robbins and Beebe's Classic Unix Shell Scripting (O'Reilly, 2005) should
[...]
Although I have to say, it's going to be a relatively low priority
because I know for a fact that getID3 is completely broken without
extensions - unless you really things it's undo hardship to require
your users to add a .txt extension...
Nah, not really, but the convention is that
2008/10/18 Nicolas Spalinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd say we should encourage having [file] extensions.
Yes! :-)
AIUI upper case text files without extensions are a throwback to
ancient UNIX and the MIT ITS system, and its only still around because
the GNU project uses it - eg GNU Emacs has
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
