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Re: Extensions and dots in filenames

Subject: Re: Extensions and dots in filenames
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:37:20 -0500

John Garison wrote:

I have been around a long time (I worked for years before there were cathode ray tube monitors). While I can't claim to be an expert in all operating systems, as long as I can remember there's always been a dot between the filename and the filetype.



'Scuse me. I was programming computers before there were Selectric console devices (remember the B-2 typewriter with the testicle guard?). A file name was something you wrote in Magic Marker on the box of punch cards or else scribed on marking tape on a mag tape carrier. Operating system? What operating system. JCL was as good as it got, bubbeleh.

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