Re: Archiving images and documents painlessly

geoffrey mckim (mailto:mckimg@INDIANA.EDU)
Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:34:29 -0500

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Date:         Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:34:29 -0500
From: geoffrey mckim <mailto:mckimg@INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Archiving images and documents painlessly
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On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, Karen Greenwood wrote:

> Is there a difference between jpeg and jpg or are they the same standard?
>
They are the same standard. Since the DOS file system only allows 3-character extensions, and historically extensions have been used to identify the type of (or application used to create) the file, JPEG files often have an extension of JPG to identify them as JPEG. Thus JPG is just a common filename extension for JPEG files.

Three cheers for DOS! :-)

Geoffrey McKim Indiana University School of Library & Information Science Mail: mailto:mckimg@indiana.edu Phone: (812) 855-5113