[30818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Aug 31 13:49:33 2000
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:42:20 -0400
From: Thomas Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
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To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
Cc: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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Steve Sobol wrote:
> Jim Mercer wrote:
>
> > > > it's the last alphanumeric token in a string delimited by dots.
> > >
> > > And it doesn't exist anywhere except Windows.
> >
> > untrue.
> >
> > just think how crippled make(1) would be without extensions.
>
> DOS and Windows do NOT consider the extension to be part of
> the filename. In DOS, make.exe is made up of the filename "make",
> and the extension "exe". In Unix and MacOS, "make.exe" represents
> a filename "make.exe". The concept of the file extension doesn't exist
> as it does in DOS.
>
> Now that I think about it, though, VMS has file extensions, doesn't
> it? (Been a while since I last used VMS.) I don't know if the extensions
> are treated the way DOS and Windows treats extensions, though.
>
> --
In VMS (whihc is what DOS is based on AFAIK)
the file name is name.ext;N (where N is the version number, which is incremented
each time you save the file). Made for very easy simple minded configuration control,
so that foo.exe;23 is the 23rd executable of the program foo.c
>
> North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net
> Steve Sobol, BOFH - President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor
> Linux Instructor, PC/LAN Program, Natl. Institute of Technology, Akron, OH
> sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET
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