Date   : Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:00:21 +0100 (BST)
From   : soruk@... (Michael McConnell)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Rick Murray wrote:

> On 02/08/2010 00:13, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>
>>> It's the RISC OS filetype.&FFB.
>> I guess that's reasonable, but still doesn't seem like a good way to
>> remember that it's basic on windows :)
>
> If you look at the options for DPScan (formerly ImageM*ster), you'll see
> the type/mnemonic disparity a lot, i.e.:
>
>   Clear   - .clr or .690 ?
>   Draw    - .drw or .aff ?
>   Sprite  - .spr or .ff9 ?
>
> It even goes as far as to offer this for native files that have been
> exposed to RISC OS:
>   GIF     - .gif or .695 ?
>
>
> For what it is worth, .bba doesn't appear to be an in-use file extension
> either! :-)

My personal feeling is that a RISC OS native format should use the RISC OS
filetype as its three-letter suffix. But that's just me.

-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell
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