Apple’s File Name Extensions: A Rant
Posted by Rey
Extensions, for all you Mac users, is the three to four letter attachment to the end of a file name which flags it underneath the header of a specific program or application type. It tells the computer what encoding is in the file so that the computer knows what to do with it. Coming in from the old days of DOS, a file named [REYPOST space TXT] would be opened by a text (txt) editor. This got confusing so over time the OS switched to using reypost.txt. Apple, for all its slickness, has the uber stupidity of still allowing files to be named without extensions.
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