[thelist] Standard File Extensions

Dave schemer at cyou.com
Mon Mar 11 15:11:01 CST 2002


Whoops, my mistake. I guess I forgot to specify older Dos machines and
Windows 3.1 was what I was getting at. Some servers running NT still set up
with .htm as the default to support older machines OS's. Sorry for any
confusion.
Dave

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Webmaster wrote:

> At 09:42 11/03/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >(On DOS/Windows machines, your suffix
> >can only be three letters long, so you must use the latter.
>
> That's not correct -- all versions of Windows since Win95 have supported
> long filenames.
>
> HTH
>
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> Veronica Yuill
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