28 Aug
2006
28 Aug
'06
11:59 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
<snip>
>Unix was
the first system that I'd ever seen where the file name
>implied a type.
I don't think Unix file names imply types, though for some types they
do imply default types. (Or, to put it another way, they imply types
in an advisory, not mandatory, sense.) This does not describe any even vaguely Unixish system
in my
experience. All of them handle such things just fine - indeed, I have
a number of plain text documentation files named something.doc on my
home machines.
Some builds of GNU gzip will indeed hurl on a file not named to its
taste. Note that I'm *not* disagreeing with you. As far as I'm
concerned that behavior breaks all kinds of conventions. But it is a fact.
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