Re: [xml-dev] file extensions best practice

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Christian Nentwich scripsit:

> - The space for 3 digit file prefixes is small, and ours would look
> like .x?? which make sthe space even smaller

There is no reason why the suffix needs to be only three letters any more,
except backward compatibility with pre-Win95 versions of Windows.  No
other living file system has such a constraint.

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