On 8/29/2006 at 12:28 PM Don wrote:
I.e. type needs to be finer grained than silly N
*character*
file "extensions"... *everyone* wants to be "DOC", or some
other pronounceable extension. So, the file types lose their
value (e.g., on my W2K box, Matlab and Mathematica both want
to use .m -- so, .m files are meaningless to me since I can't
recall FROM THE NAME OF THE FILE which application needs to
be opened to process the file). MacOS *seems* to have had the
right idea (though I have never used it "seriously" to know
for sure).
...and you might add that there are no rules for "extensions". In front
of me, I've got a disk with .FW and .PCL files. And no--they don't have
anything to do with Frameworks or HP. Neither is listed in
Filext.com.
Since Windows closed the barn door after the horses ran off, so to speak,
the use of extension to identify the application associated with a file is
not particularly wonderful. I don't know if it could be dangerous.
Cheers,
Chuck