Harold Fuchs wrote:
I think at least part of the reason that "automatic filename extension" is
not the default is that OO runs on platforms like Unix and Mac that don't
use filename extensions and whose users are, in the main, wholly
ignorant of
that whole scheme and wouldn't want their directory listings cluttered up
with them.
MacOS X uses filename extensions, and so do GUI desktops for .+ix. The
old MacOS scheme of using file metadata for the purpose (which OS/2 also
attempted) crashed hard against the fact that neither non-proprietary
networks nor portable APIs support such metadata.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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