Thread: Files with what extension N900 can install (.deb, ...?)?
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2010-02-12 , 09:18
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Originally Posted by alexios View Post
Unix-based systems don't depend on the extension for telling what type a file is; they look inside the file instead (for certain signatures called ‘magic numbers’). In fact, there are no file extensions in Unix. Dots followed by three letters are just part of the filename.
I don't know why Windows doesn't wise up to this approach. It really confused me when moving from Amiga to Windows why the extension made a difference to the file.
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