Re: [Json] JSON files in old-time DOS 8.3 file system, proposed extension "JON".

Phillip Hallam-Baker <ietf@hallambaker.com> Sun, 21 May 2017 16:16 UTC

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​If you are doing retro computing then you shouldn't be using JSON at all.

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On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:43 AM, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:

>
> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 3:04 AM, <bnossum@norwia.no> wrote:
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> I wonder if it would be worthwhile to specify the file extension ".JON"
>> for old FAT file systems?  I realize that this problem will eventually go
>> away, but probably not for a good many years.
>>
>
> I think "JSN" would be better because more recognizable (cnsnnts r mr
> rcgnzbl thn vwels).  In OS/8, a good extension would be JN, to avoid
> collision with JS for JavaScript.
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> --
> John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
> It was dreary and wearisome.  Cold clammy winter still held sway in this
> forsaken country.  The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark
> greasy surfaces of the sullen waters.  Dead grasses and rotting reeds
> loomed
> up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers.
>         --LOTR, "The Passage of the Marshes"
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