John Stanton uttered:
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.
An extension of arbitray length should be just as easy to parse as an
extension up to 3 characters. "Upto" implies that the extension can also
be 0, 1 or 2 characters long, so the parsing code should be sufficiently
flexible to handle 0..3 characters, and by extenstion 0..n characters is
not much more difficult (where n is the length of the filename).
With VFAT, there is no filesystem in common use that can't handle
extenstions >3 characters long.
Christian
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