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		tremon on June 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake fro... `azure-pipelines.yml` This is the 1980s holdout that bothers me much more. It's 2021 and Microsoft still clings to three-letter filename extensions? Curiously, they did abandon the 8 in 8.3, but not the 3.

micv on June 8, 2021 [–]

You can use four or more letter extensions quite happily in my experience (.html works for example). Three is just convention.

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