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throwawaysoxjjetoday at 4:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Macs originally didn’t have filename extensions because the file type was stored as metadata in the file system


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hnlmorgtoday at 5:37 PM

That really is a superior way of doing things too. Or at least it would have been if that metadata were transferred with the file itself in all protocols.