Posted By
gerliczer
on 2014-08-16
04:55:12
|  Re: SD2IEC SID Player
Hi Litwr,
I am very sorry but I have to say several bitter words. It is abnormal thinking in and comparing to categories of other systems anything in the old Commodore computers. PRG files are data files that have loading address. SEQ files are data files that have no loading address. REL files are structured data storage files. It can be argued if these type names are good or not, but we have only these so that's what we will be cooking with (as it is said in Hungary in these cases - someone with better English should post its proper counterpart). If there is any kind of benefit storing "data" with an address where to load it for being able precisely interpreting it then it should be stored in a PRG file. The OS knows it, people know it.
File extensions are the lamest hack for file use differentiation for the operating system. A proper operating system does not rely on the name of the file but reads its contents and decides based on it what to do. You should see nowadays (and for a long time already) in Windows too that Microsoft tries to hide this stupidity from users. File meta-data and/or type identifier plug-ins are the proper way.
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