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JIF = JPEG interchange format

JIF is a separate image file format. GIF is pronounced with a hard G, otherwise it is a JPEG interchange file.

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Well, what would you say to: .wtf for world of warcraft configuration files? .der for certificate files? .std for old Staroffice Draw template files? .yif Yes that one exists and the naming is apparently intentional. (So we have reached that point.)

Therefore we agree that some file extensions could be offensive. One solution is to "turn off the offensive part of the brain" which means changing the user (and drastically altering society). Another solution would be to abandon file extensions entirely. I understand why they were invented, but today with file headers or shebang lines, they really are no longer needed.

That said, I agree that short-term these SJW need to be ignored. Or better yet, tell them "yes, I see that you are offended" and to carry on anyway.

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Well, what would you say to:
 
.wtf for world of warcraft configuration files?
.der for certificate files?
.std for old Staroffice Draw template files?
.yif Yes that one exists and the naming is apparently intentional. (So we have reached that point.)

Heck just fire up regedit (or grep your entire filesystem) and see what extensions your system has seen. Is your computer a SJW!?!?!?!?

Seriously, the idea needs to be scrapped. You can go all day finding more ways to isolate people, to accuse them of malicious intent, and demand false justice. In the end it accomplishes nothing except creating malice between people, dividing them, and creating the very hatred you seek to destroy. Yes, there are issues that come up, but not all of them are intentional with desire to do harm. Those that are should be addressed. But if there was no malice, then society should overlook it. There's nothing to be gained by having zero-tolerance for such things, but plenty to lose and, much like my own previous comment indicates my anger over the issue, a lot of hatred to be made.

It's not just a matter of using Linux versus Windows. I get the occasional spam with poisoned executable attachments inside zipfiles. I view zipfile headers, and often see stuff like the following 2 examples...

PK^C^D^T^@^@^@^H^@^Y^?|DT^Z^F^[¾`^G^@^@\236^@^U^@^@^@OrderDetails.pdf.scr

PK^C^D^T^@^@^@^H^@^\WzD~\224®ÂM^\^@^@^@J^@^@;^@^@^@~apbnet00~50~44b76b05-3e01-414a-8469-04f234689df3~Email.exe

".scr" is executable in Windows http://filext.com/file-extensi... so I assume that's a trojan-planting attempt. One possible legal defense is that it's impossible to tell whether you're blocking a trojan sent by police or by foreign criminals.

Ahhh, I think I understand what you mean now. By "XP mode", you're in fact referring to this: http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mode

When silly me was thinking of this: http://filext.com/images/vista_compatibility_mode.gif

Yes, the former will work for 16-bit applications. For those reading this thread, I should point out that "XP Mode" is not installed by default in Windows 7 or anything but it is a worthwhile addon if you run legacy apps.

They have to take the same acronym as a 20+ year old file format for storing numbers?

It's almost like they didn't bother putting the term 'CDF file' into a search engine to see if anyone else was using that acronym already for a file extension. (of course, w3 even used it twice)

Opera has been doing that for years. You can use all your search tools (even user-defined) as commands on the address bar. For instance, if on my Opera address bar I type 'ext mdb', that will take directly to http://filext.com/file-extension/mdb

That raises the question of how "open" is, say, Firefox, if it always installs Adobe's Flash player for

application/x-shockwave-flash
application/x-shockwave-flash2-preview
application/futuresplash
image/vnd.rn-realflash

And doesn't offer alternatives like GNASH at that time. All media types are supposed to be that transparent, and install their handler plugin when data of that type is first downloaded. But if GNASH isn't offered, even though it's valid, that's not really "open": the preinstalled bundling of the "default" Adobe Flash handler makes a closed system.

It would be much better if xiph declared that only .ogg files containing audio should be called .ogg and came up with a new file ending and name for files with video (or audio & video) in them, perhaps .ogv or something.

thats an Office 2003 doc XML (not quite the same thing). You'd have had to unzip the docx first if it was actually one, and then would have a crap ton of files and stuff... which I beleive is similar-ish to the "competition".

thats an Office 2003 doc XML (not quite the same thing). You'd have had to unzip the docx first if it was actually one, and then would have a crap ton of files and stuff... which I beleive is similar-ish to the "competition".

If you realy want to report accurate info about the demo scene:

Those sound loops come from FastTracker and FastTracker2 (FT2 is now free !), their file extensions are respectively ".mod" and ".xm".

Those kind of file are called "modules" (.mod => module, .xm => extended module).

The best way to play them now is with the BASS winamp input plugin

If you want to try this out, download modules from all Class Rips by maktone....

To be fair, of course there's a big C64 demo scene with C64 sound loops (.sid files), but you don't actualy find them bundled in PC warez.

If you realy want to report accurate info about the demo scene:

Those sound loops come from FastTracker and FastTracker2 (FT2 is now free !), their file extensions are respectively ".mod" and ".xm".

Those kind of file are called "modules" (.mod => module, .xm => extended module).

The best way to play them now is with the BASS winamp input plugin

If you want to try this out, download modules from all Class Rips by maktone....

To be fair, of course there's a big C64 demo scene with C64 sound loops (.sid files), but you don't actualy find them bundled in PC warez.

yup yup yup. I currently use keywords for google, google images, traceroute, whois, ebay, wiki, xe.net, php.net, mysql.com (though their website is mostly useless (in comparision with the brilliantly useful php.net)), amazon, archive.org, a file extension search page, and ip2country. yay for bookmarks! your suggestions welcome.

FYI:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=%25s
http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=%25s&Su bmit3=Go!
http://whois.webhosting.info/%25s
http://web.archive.org/archive_request_ng?collecti on=web&url=%25s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search =%25s
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=%25s&From =USD&To=GBP
http://www.ezwhois.net/index.php
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?satitle =%25s&ht=1&sokeywordredirect=&from=R8&fkr=1&soloct og=9
http://www.php.net/search.php
http://www.mysql.com/search/?q=%25s&charset=
http://puremango.co.uk/ip2country.php?ip=%25s
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle- form/026-9212734-6757257

File extensions are primarily there for program associations. 99% of programs DO check that the file format is correct before processing, many programs, such as image viewers, media players and archivers can automatically use the correct decoding algorithm, even for files with incorrect extensions.

Reminds me of a few years ago when I renamed all my .mp3 files to .xyz and configured WinAmp to work with them to bypass the silly global network MP3 file scanner.

A lot of people make assumptions about file extensions. Remember back when the .SHS file extension was used as a virus payload that Windows was hard-coded to hide in Explorer? Even some of us that were "in the know" about file extensions were bitten by that one!

This sounds very similar to the mht file-type introduced by Microsoft in products like Internet Explorer and Publisher.

Here is the Wikipedia article on XUL. I could have used this link on the PERL 6 web site since the documentation on PARROT and PUGS are composed in XUL. This was my first introduction to the format. The documents opened in Mozilla, but not in IE. While the arguement has been made here that you should only use Mozilla, why alienate a huge chunk of users without helping them along? Also, if you are going to publish in XUL, do not assume the casual user knows what the format and reader is. The Filext.com site did not yet have a listing or recommended reader for the XUL files.

Link is here.

--
Evan

You must not be American. The rest of the world measures gas consumption in Kazaa PlayLists

No. Now they've got wrl... ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

This is a JOKE!

I'm still working on getting a human, but I THINK I'm making progress...

Under Macintosh OSX .DS_Store holds the information which controls the way a folder will be opened

OK, for those of us who live in virtual caves (self included), an MPY format file seems to be nothing more than a secure version of an MP3 format file that plays only in RCA/Lyra players.

More info.

I'm going to make a new file format with the extension .JIF

It already exists.

public static void Main( string [] Args )
{
FileStream fs;
M4PStream m4p;

if( Args.Length != 1 )
{
Console.WriteLine( "Usage: DeDRMS file.m4p" );
return;
}
[...]

Atario, you are mistaken about the use of the RAW extension.

Canon pro cameras store the raw captures with filenames of the form *.TIF, *.CRW, and *.CR2. The TIF file is actually a real, valid TIFF file. There is a thumbnail image stored in the TIFF, as well as the full raw data. CRW and CR2 files are proprietary to Canon.

Nikon pro cameras store the raw captures with filenames of the form *.NEF. These files are also real, valid TIFF files. Again, there is a thumbnail image stored in the TIFF, as well as the full raw data.

Don't believe me about the TIFF files? Get a couple and open them with tiffinfo from the libtiff package. You will get error messages like:

DSC_0001.NEF: Warning, unknown field with tag 34665 (0x8769) ignored.
DSC_0001.NEF: Warning, unknown field with tag 36867 (0x9003) ignored.
DSC_0001.NEF: Warning, unknown field with tag 37398 (0x9216) ignored.

You might wonder why RAW is generally capitalized. Beats me. It's not an acronym, and it's not a file extension used by most digital cameras. But your description of the "previously established use" of the RAW extension is bogus. There are at least 10 different file formats that use the RAW extension. (See File Extension Source.)

In addition, your original suggestion regarding PNG was not well thought out. Both the Canon and Nikon raw formats use compression.

Now, you could consider converting all of the raw camera files to 48-bit PNG images, but you would lose some data, and the tools to manipulate the PNGs aren't as good as some of the tools to manipulate the RAW images.

It's a bit ironic that you are lecturing someone on taking time "to think about the subject" before flaming them. Personally, I don't think your initial post showed common sense.

It's actually an XML-based Web Page in the .NET architechture.

Source: filext.com

On MacSlash, until Siracusa sees the light shining out of my ass on the evils of HFS+ metadata, he's just one more Mac bigot.

Filename extensions where invented back in command line days. They made a certain amount of sense when you didn't have a lot of different file types, or a robust file system for keeping track of them. Now you have dozens and dozens of file types.

File extensions are just not adequate to record this level of information. Too many have multiple meanings. (My favorite example is .WMZ, which means "Compressed Skin" to a certain media player and "Compressed graphic metafile" to a certain office suite -- both from the same company!) And how are users supposed to deal with them? If you have to specify an extension every time you copy or rename a file, Captain Murphy will make sure you get it wrong at the worst possible time. (Even worse for non-techies, who often don't know/forget that extensions are important, or can't remember all the ones they need to know.) If you leave it up the system, you're at the mercy of applications that play with extension associations without telling you and that impose "descriptions" that are more advertisements than useful classifications.

If there are problems with the way Classic does metadata, that's an implementation issue, not a flaw in the concept. Anyway, is file-type fascism on the Mac any worse that extension stealing on Windows?

If I have an issue with Siracusa about metadata, it's that his arguments on the subject tend to wander into obscure abstractions and complicated psychophilosophical rants. Computer science has some arcane roots, but computer people are a pragmatic bunch -- you can only convince them with specifics.

I have to comment on your use of the word "bigot". My American Heritage Dictionary defines "bigot" as "One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ." Dismissing other people's opinions by with simplistic stereotypes and scatological insults would seem to fit that definition.