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

[James Knott]

John Macdonald wrote:
> Just because extensions on Unix are voluntary and only supported
> by programming tools does not mean they do not exist.  If you
> want to call them something else, you'll just end up with
> confusing discussions,  If you convince others that Unix does
> not have extensions, they'll have difficulties reading the
> man pages for programs like gcc and make.
>
>   

Many years ago, on some systems, different file types were stored
differently on the disk.  Nowadays, there's just the extension or suffix
that designates the file type, but beyond that, has no effect on
storage.  However, DOS and Windows do use that to determine executables.


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