On 14 Sep 2015 at 19:29, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Sep 14, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Stephen Chrzanowski <pontiac76 at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> There are many extensions of the same .. err.. >> name(?)...value(?)..structure(?) that are completely different things. > > It?s fairly bad in the electronics engineering world, where it seems like > half the tools use *.sch for schematics and *.brd/pcb for printed circuit > board layouts, but none of the tools agree on the format of the actual file > data. If you have two such apps installed, you have to make a hard choice > about which app becomes the default to open such files, and occasionally have > to fix it when updating the other app, as it takes over the extensions again. > > This widespread unwillingness to get beyond the 8.3 limits, particularly on > Windows, is annoying. We haven?t had to worry about compatibility with > 3-character file extensions since Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95, two decades > ago now.
Of course in a sensible world, OS providers would all have implemented a common metadata API, and no one would need or use extensions. -- Cheers -- Tim
