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A comment on 3-character filename extensions. Parent comment

Re:3-character filename extensions by Gigablah on Monday July 14, 2014 @09:58PM (#8034330)
Why should we even have extensions in the first place?

Ideally the filetype should be determined from metadata or scanning the header.

(Speaking as someone who's had to fix image file processing bugs because the original coder trusted file extensions to be correct.)

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Re:3-character filename extensions by bluedino on Monday July 14, 2014 @11:08PM (#8034544)
And this is how the Mac has worked for a long time.
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