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Richard Nolde wrote:
> The current state of handling TIFF files, sometimes identified with 
> .TIF, .TIFF, .tif, or .tiff, is only issue for people who run an OS that 
> is silly enough to define the file type and/or application by the 
> extension 

Are you referring to MS Windows here, which by some estimates, is over 
90% of the OS market?

Regards,
-Edward
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