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Am 21.01.2014 17:58, schrieb Warp:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
>> You'd be surprised how often you still find good old 8.3 filenames in
>> the freakin' registry.
>
> How many new file formats are created nowadays that dare to use more
> than 3 characters in their file name extension?
>
> There are some brave people who are courageous enough to make them
> larger than 3 characters, but they are extremely rare.
Indeed.
Virtually the only pieces of software using file name extensions >3
characters seem to belong to the domain of development tools.
That, and the new MS Office file name extensions.
(The open source community seems to have been more daring in this
respect; probably because its strongest roots are in the Unix community,
where technically there has never been such a thing as file extensions
anyway.)
> When was the last time that the length of the file name extension had
> any kind of relevance on anything?
Only a few days ago. Relevant in the sense that the artificial
limitation to 3 characters keeps leading to file extension clashes,
which suck :-P
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