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. -- Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California