Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 302
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 302. Here are my solutions to them.
1: Shortened characters into the most common extension, formerly ASCII.
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txt
Shortened characters (text, shortened) into the most common extension (it is), formerly ASCII (it used to be).
2: Medical practitioner at the end of word files until gaining a cross in 2002.
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doc
Medical practitioner (a doc) at the end of word files (the extension for Word native format) until gaining a cross in 2002 (progressively replaced by the newer docx from 2002 onwards).
3: At the end of real estate inventory, most commonly for Info and preferences.
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plist
At the end (a filename extension) of real estate (property) inventory (list), most commonly for Info (Info.plist in bundles) and preferences (also usually property lists).
The common factor
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They are common filename extensions.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.