Re: .htm versus .html

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:35:34 +1100
To:	firespring <firespring(at)nfx.net>
Cc:	"Kevin W. Bishop" <bishopk(at)rpi.edu>, HWG Style <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
References:	interaccess
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 06:41 11/12/99 -0500, firespring wrote:
>It ran
>Robert Denny's HTTPD for Windows 3.1 (which was an adaption of
>NCSA's software), and I used Mosaic 0.9 as a browser.

I've still got a copy of 0.9 on my system :-)

>Now as to why the ".htm" corruption continued AFTER the Windows
>systems evolved the capability for handling longer filenames, THAT
>can only be attributed to

Don't forget:
c) Backward compatibility


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au

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