Date   : Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:36:04 +0100
From   : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: Spitting expletives

> 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!?).

But you're not picking an extension that will "just" be used on modern kit. 
The Z80 and 80186 are both Acorn products that will not allow a .5 filename.

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

On my PC (Vista) it contracts to test~1 .bas

And to confuse the matter even more, create 2 files, "test.bas" and 
"test.basic", the second file with .basic contracts to "test~1.bas". To 
anything pre Bill Gates, that will look like the same filetype, which 
they're not. If the extension is contracting to something else on your PC, 
or other modern OS, that only adds to the problem of using a .5

Mark.