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The extension is meaningless outside of Windows...

• Thorrez 6y ago
  It doesn't sound like that from the article: >the default text reader on OSX, TextEdit is used to open files with TXT extension by default. >Gatekeeper doesn’t quarantine TXT files
• tsimionescu 6y ago
  File extensions are routinely used by all sorts of software, at least as hints if nothing else. For example, gcc will handle files named .c differently from files named .cpp, and will not even work with static libraries unless they are named .a.
• andylynch 6y ago
  Far from it. Even Mac OS stopped using type and creator codes in favour of file extensions, 11 years ago (with snow leopard).
• canadianfella 6y ago
  No