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Alan Bellingham wrote:
> "Andrue Cope [TeamB]" <no.spam@not.a.valid.address> wrote:
> 
> 
>>The shell OTOH may still regard an extension as something special and I
>>don't know to how it reacts to extensions with more than three
>>characters.
> 
> 
> Assuming this hasn't changed between NT4 and NT5 (aka Windows 2000):
> pretty much as one would hope - you can associate even something like
> 'Andrue Label' with a file type. (Though the space in the middle makes
> life slightly more interesting.)
> Alan Bellingham

My problem is that I have an application that reads data files generated 
by software written by others and the data files are both .dat.

One data file is selected by the user via a file picker or by drag and 
drop.  If the user wants to extract, process, and save to file certain 
data I must have the application automatically look in the same folder 
for the second data file.  I can change the extension for the second 
data file as I have that application's code but want to choose both a 
reasonable extension name and one that's not used much by other 
applications.  I see a trip to San Diego to the NT machine coming up. :-}