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

Bijan Parsia 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.
> 

But then, say, specialized editors running on my windows machine would
be screwed up:-(

I.

> Cheers,
> Bijan.

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