[Openfontlibrary] [Cctools-cchost] ccHost 5: pseudo-verify files with no extension

[Dave Crossland]

2008/10/18 Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger at sil.org>:
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> I'd say we should encourage having [file] extensions.

Yes! :-)

AIUI upper case text files without extensions are a throwback to
ancient UNIX and the MIT ITS system, and its only still around because
the GNU project uses it - eg GNU Emacs has always had LICENSE and so
on in its source tree.

MS-DOS used 3 letter file extensions to associate files with file
types, MacOS used resource forks, and VAX and UNIX had no uniform way
I think. Today, file extensions can be any length on all major OS, and
although they all handle files without extensions sensibly, it is much
better to have extensions.

If someone uploads a FONTLOG where the extension is missing, should
OFLB add ".txt"?