Old FrameMaker versions

[Steve Rickaby]

At 17:35 +0000 20/3/13, Paul Wilbraham wrote:

>I can recall, in the early days of FrameMaker, all FrameMaker documents were given the .doc suffix.
> 
>Later, this changed to .fm, maybe around version 3 or 4.

That would explain it, then. The only question remains as to why Word and FrameMaker documents had the same extent, when their internal format was so different.

If Max Hoffmann is reading this, maybe he can explain?

At 10:53 -0700 20/3/13, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote:

>Historical side-bar: this treatment is quite different in UNIX systems, where extensions do not have any special meaning.

And the situation is more complex again on Mac, where the file type byte is retained in some files for backward compatibility with pre-OS X OS versions, which built an invisible database that matched files with their home application, but OS X (Unix under the covers) also takes a file name extent into consideration. (And on OS X you can have up to half a dozen apps that can open, say, a PDF.)

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