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In comp.os.linux.misc, on Wed 15 February 2006 19:51, Douglas O'Neal

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Which is a world away from .c defining what is contained in the file.

If I save this article and call it Compressedhtmlarchive.c is it your contention that this would magically transform it into c language source-code? I very much doubt that it would, yet you are arguing *against* my contention that the last few characters of a file name necessarily define its contents.

The OP wants to invent new "extensions" for compressed HTML pages such that an HTML page compressed with tar and gzip would cease to be .tar.gz or .tgz and would become .tgh, but then the browser would (in the words that you snipped) treat it the same as .tgz

He seems to be labouring under the illusion - which nothing you have said serves to confirm or deny, that changing the "extension" of the file would magically make it more manageable.

Numerous applications make a "best guess" based on the last part of a file name, but then the better written ones also take account of the file properties.

-- Robert HULL If it's there and you can see it - it's real If it's there and you can't see it - it's transparent If it's not there and you can see it - it's virtual If it's not there and you can't see it - it's gone!