Re: Windows Media Player executes WMF content in .MP3 files.

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 03/04/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 19:31:03 GMT

In article <MR6g8.2706$XS4.853490847@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>,
Alun Jones <alun@texis.com> wrote:
>So the environment as a whole, in which I include the users and their
>applications, and the way they have been taught to name files, _does_ have the
>concept of file extensions, and _does_ frequently assume that the extension
>implies the content.

I'm glad someone pointed this out. And it's not just the users: consider
"make", which decide which translator to run based (for the most part) on
filename suffixes. And the "cc" and "gcc" commands, which allow you to
provide a variety of different input file types (C/C++/assembler source
files, object files) and determine (by default) which are which based on
extensions. 

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