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

[James Knott]

Sy Ali wrote:
> 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.

I remember when I switched from DOS & 8.3 file names to OS/2, with up to
254 character file names.  Again, OS/2 didn't rely on file name
suffixes, but could use them.  It used extended attributes (up to 65K
bytes!), so that the file "knew" what application could open it.

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