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We're talking about MacOS now.

It was really common back then to put dates in file names, and names could be 32 characters long. Furthermore, you didn't need an extension because every file had a separate 4-byte (binary, but usually ASCII anyway) type.




Who's talking about MacOS? The GP comment was top-level.




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