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In article <B7794256.7E7%radiodog@ihug.com.au>,
 Robert Duong <radiodog@ihug.com.au> wrote:

>Maybe it's Windows not coping with a four letter file extension...
>
>Rob


Hi Rob,

You are spot on. It turns out that some Windows programs now support 4 
letter suffixes such as ".jpeg" and that this ability has existed since 
Windows 95.  If such a file is then opened into another Windows program 
that only supports the older 3 letter suffix standard, the suffix 
becomes truncated and just leaves ".jpe". This can even happen when just 
attaching a file named "rob.jpeg" to MS Outlook Express which seems to 
truncate the suffix to 3 letters.

So JPG and JPE are exactly the same files but the suffix really should 
be either JPG or JPEG.  One can regard the JPE as a filename fragment.  
Similarly, HTML files can become HTM files and there must be many other 
examples.

Whilst I have not uncovered any "official" information on this topic, I 
have now found numerous newsgroup postings which provide step by step 
instructions to replicate this scenario.  So the cause of the scenario 
is how applications handle 4 letter suffixes.

Thank you to everyone who has responded to my posting.

Regards,

Luke Maslen.