Subject: Re: trivial patch for bz2abw plugin
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2002 - 09:09:09 CST
According to Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>:
> sorry to nitpick but maybe a three letter extension might be better? (i
> dunno, maybe .bza). Its probably not inherently any better but i still
> try and keep to 8.3 filenames out of habit.
No. This is urban legend, that even Microsoft continue to believes in
that extension is to be limited to 3 chars (see the .htm story).
> (I assume the more descriptive option to name files .abw.bz2 is still also
> available)
I'm against that double extension given how they are handled is Win...
See the latest Outlook viruses like the "I LOVE YOU" to understand how
that does work....
Hub
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