From: Ned K. <ne...@bi...> - 2002-10-06 04:17:57
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On Saturday 05 October 2002 08:28 pm, you wrote: > hm, so i shouldn't care about 8.3? in fact i'm stil contemplating > whether to use .html or .htm. i'm planning to distribute .zip files > to students/lecturers and they probably use os ranging from win95 > to winxp. i do still remember the win95 days when my filesystem > corrupts and long filenames got truncated into something like > ABCDEF~1.TXT or such. Actually, it was the DOS apps and 16-bit Windows apps (i.e. not Win32,=20 but Windows 3.1) that did this. The Zip format itself supports arbitrary text strings as file names. If your users use a 32-bit Zip app like WinZip they should have no=20 problems on Win95 (if I recall correctly). The older (DOS) command-line PKZIP may have problems with these=20 filenames. But if you're concerned that they may be processing these files with=20 16-bit apps (maybe some old editor?), I'd use ".yml" I see neither .YAM nor .YML files at http://filext.com/y.htm, though=20 this isn't probably an authoritative resource. --=20 Ned Konz http://bike-nomad.com GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE |