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Old 26-10-2008, 03:02 PM
Jim Ford Jim Ford is offline
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Re: Sharper RAW files ?

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Originally Posted by eeyore View Post
although technically both .raw and .jpeg are spelt like that - with lower case letters and a fullstop before them , because they are file extensions in the same way that word files are .doc, excel files are .xls etc. (note some computer systems capitalise file extensions so you get .JPEG .RAW .DOC etc)
.doc, .xls, .jpg, .jpeg, .img, .gzip, .dvi etc. are just file extensions to give some clue to brain-dead operating systems that can't work it out for themselves, and have no literal meaning. Operating systems that fiddle around with the case of file extensions are doubly brain-dead!

Jim
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