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imagine if instead of file.txt, we had file::ext
all_star::ogg
frogs::png
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@lizardsquid what if they had no extensions at all?
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@calvin @lizardsquid Then you've got this command:
STRSEU SRCFILE(PRODLIB/HTMLSRC) SRCMBR(INDEX) TYPE(HTML)
That's right, the type is a separate element of the command entirely.
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@lizardsquid this was actually normalcy on the Mac until OS X; files and applications were typed with a 4-character filesystem property. extensions mean nothing to humans, so you don't need them
people appreciate what the mac did for computing, but neglect a lot of the subtleties about it