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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:51:46PM -0300, Toby Thain wrote:
> >I think there's more to it than that... it's about arranging that
> >file-open dialogs offer an appropriate list of files. The advantage
> >of a changed suffix is that non-BigTIFF compliant applications can
> >offer
> >
> >   TIFF files (*.tif,*.tiff)
> >
> >whereas ones which do support BigTIFF can offer
> >
> >   TIFF files (*.tif,*.tiff,*.btf)
> >
> >and in each case the user is only offered those files which the
> >application can process.
> 
> But only if BigTIFF is *never* named *.TIF.

Exactly. And there will be BigTIFF files named *.tiff and this breaks
the whole idea of the new suffix. Personally I do not see any reason to
invent new suffixes, so my vote is to go with the old one.

Best regards,
Andrey

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