From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:32:30 +0100

>BlueChip wrote:
> > PLEASE can we stick with THREE character extensions for our filenames?
>
>Why?
>--
>Björn

Linus commented that they are "almost defacto standard", which is well
stated fact.

I also gave some reasoning in my original post, but it has been <snip>ped!?

Finally, it's nice to be able to type "dir" and not get a bunch of gargabe
filenames - such is what us M$ users have to suffer when the file extension
goes over 3 characters :(

BC
Received on 2003-07-01