Date   : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:03:59 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On 29/07/2010 15:35, Mark Haysman wrote:

> And that's where calling it .basic may have issues down the road,

I think most decent kit can understand long filenames (inc. exts); my 
Neuros does (ARM Debian), my Zen can (OS unknown), my dopey little MP3 
player can (OS? that heap'o'junk has an OS!?).

In fact the only time I ever have problems are printers and photobooths 
that just *assume* photos have a .jpg extension, rather than .jpeg.


For what it is worth, in the interests of knowing how the mapping goes:
   test.basic  ->  test~1.ba~

[to see this, type "dir /x" at the command prompt]


 > I'm all for picking an association, but pick 3 letters, not 5.

Everything copes quite well with .html. :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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