Extensions are used by such systems as MIME to indicate file type.
Fitting into those conventions is better than not doing so for some
capricious reason.
Name extensions are easier to handle than the traditional Unix "magic"
method.
Trevor Talbot wrote:
On 11/28/06, John Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you use an extension greater than 3 chars you violate rules for some
existing file systems and reduce portability. You can also make it
difficult to parse the extension when it is used to type the file.
The journal filename violates most of the same constraints, so that's
not much of an argument :P
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