Re: Origin Of Filename Extension Dot Separator
"Mr. Chang Man-wai" <[email protected]>
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On 8/24/2026 2:20 AM, Lars Poulsen wrote:
>
> 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.
In typical letters management (talking about
physical letters, paper ones), how would you
assign a name to a letter? Is there a file
extension kind of thing?
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