Re: Origin Of Filename Extension Dot Separator

Lars Poulsen <[email protected]>
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On 2026-08-23 08:13, Mr. Chang Man-wai wrote:
> On 8/18/2026 5:57 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Under ITS I think they were just separated by a space
> 
> The "dot separator" is just the full-stop
> symbol in english language, or the decimal
> point in mathematics.

In Unix/Linux filesystems, that is so. But before that became 
ubiquitous, the parts of the filesystem were separate fixed-length 
fields in the file directory entries, and the separators were not in the 
file directory, but were added as syntactic sweeteners in the command 
language and the display routines.

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