2008/10/18 Nicolas Spalinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'd say we should encourage having [file] extensions.
Yes! :-) AIUI upper case text files without extensions are a throwback to ancient UNIX and the MIT ITS system, and its only still around because the GNU project uses it - eg GNU Emacs has always had LICENSE and so on in its source tree. MS-DOS used 3 letter file extensions to associate files with file types, MacOS used resource forks, and VAX and UNIX had no uniform way I think. Today, file extensions can be any length on all major OS, and although they all handle files without extensions sensibly, it is much better to have extensions. If someone uploads a FONTLOG where the extension is missing, should OFLB add ".txt"? _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
