Re: agenda item for Teleconference 5 November on MIME types (ISSUE-145)

Whatever we choose, we might do a check against a resource like
http://filext.com/ to check that there isn't an unfortunate
association to some file type that might commonly associate the OWL
file to a common existing application.

-Alan

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Rinke Hoekstra wrote:
>
>> On 28 okt 2008, at 09:06, Ivan Herman wrote:
>>>
>>> What about '.owlx'?
>>>
>>> maybe as a matter of consistency we can also consider using 'owlf' and
>>> 'owlm' for the other two.
>>>
>>> Ivan
>>
>> Although certainly prettier,
>
> By leaps and bounds.
>
>> I think it would create problems on FAT-based file systems that (still)
>> use the 8.3 naming scheme as these may truncate a long extension to three
>> characters.
>
> But they would truncate to .owl, right? That seems harmless to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
>
>

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