Date   : Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:46:18 +0100 (BST)
From   : soruk@... (Michael McConnell)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Mark Haysman wrote:

>> 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.

Am I missing something here, but wouldn't .ffb do the trick?

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