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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by benatkin on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:15AM (#26678588)
The extension is meaningless outside of Windows...
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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by tsimionescu on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:15AM (#26678951)
File extensions are routinely used by all sorts of software, at least as hints if nothing else. For example, gcc will handle files named .c differently from files named .cpp, and will not even work with static libraries unless they are named .a.
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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by Thorrez on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:04AM (#26678722)
It doesn't sound like that from the article:

>the default text reader on OSX, TextEdit is used to open files with TXT extension by default.

>Gatekeeper doesn’t quarantine TXT files

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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by andylynch on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:32AM (#26681371)
Far from it. Even Mac OS stopped using type and creator codes in favour of file extensions, 11 years ago (with snow leopard).
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