Johnny Andersson wrote:
So how does Linux know what program to open a certain file with? I
will soon
install Linux on at least one of my machines, so it would be
interesting to
know. I just would love to get rid of that file extension shit, which
annoyed me since about 1998 or so…
By the way, there are some cases when file extensions are needed in Linux
too, aren't there? For example .c, .g++, .h, .o, .tar etc. Doesn't an OGG
file in Linux need the .ogg extension?
Johnny Andersson
<snip>
As far as I know Linux, like UNIX does not *rely* on extensions. It uses
them as a convenience if you say nothing different. But if you want an
object deck without a ".o" extension that's up to you. The software will
still work properly. And, if you want, you could completely reconfigure
"make" to use a completely different set of suffixes. It would be a
bizarre thing to do but ...
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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