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Does Windows requires a 3 character file extension?

Anonymous

∙ 14y ago

Updated: 11/7/2022

No. The 3 character extension is a limitation of MS-DOS. Versions of Windows from Windows 95 and later support an arbitrary number of characters for a file extension, as long as the total filename length is 255 or less characters.

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