Unix file extensions (Was: make apache2 serve file as htmL...)

Fri Jan 12 22:06:01 UTC 2007

On 1/12/07, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Unix programming tools often use file suffixes to infer information
> about file type, but a suffix is not the same thing as an "extension."

File suffixes rock.. I still laugh when I see 8.3 filenames.

Imagine a unix server with a website with all 8.3 filenames.. oh the hilarity.
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