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In fact Winzip recognizes extension-less README files quite well. It shows them in a different color and most users understand that it is something to be viewed. The name 'README' is pretty obvious.

While we are at it, do we still need to use the three letter extensions which are a legacy of the MS-DOS era and FAT filesystems? A couple of years down the line, people would wonder why we tried to save one letter by typing 'txt'!



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