File Suffix

[Paul Looney]

Stephen,
More like 7,311,616 characters. The creator codes could be small  
characters or caps (except Apple reserved all lower case for itself).
Paul Looney

On Jan 22, 2011, at 11:25 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

> And the old 4 char 'creator codes' would run out at 456976 !
>
> On 23 January 2011 01:17, Paul Looney <support at ahsomme.com> wrote:
>
>> Cal,
>> Another consideration:
>> Three characters allows for approximately 17,576 combinations  
>> (26*26*26).
>> Apple's App Store alone already has over 300,000 apps, and growing.
>> Three characters might have been enough in 1970 but not today.
>> Paul Looney
>>
>>
>> On Jan 22, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
>>
>>  O.K. Ken, given that there are companies in our business that  
>> have used
>>>> more
>>>> than a three char suffix. That still doesn't make it right.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, Cal, I'm just not seeing the big deal with "greater than 3
>>> character"
>>> file extensions... but maybe it's just me...
>>>
>>> Ken Ray
>>> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
>>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>>> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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