.rev file association issues

[Trevor DeVore]

On 7/25/03 Gary Rathbone wrote

>As there is only a fixed number of three letter file extensions. How does a
>developer, considering cross platform data files for their owns stacks,
>provide or register/'own' a unique or non conflicting filetype. 

One option to consider is to not use three letter file extensions.  For a program I recently did for a Windows centric company they chose a 7 letter extension (camthtr) for files saved with the app since most (if not all) the 3 letter ones are taken by someone.

Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com