[z-machine] RE: [Inform mntce] Blorb extension proposal

[Jim Fisher (via OnyxRing)]

Cedric Knight wrote:

> (b) It's useful to be able to distinguish Blorb files containing Zcode
> from Blorb files containing Glulx or nothing by means of a single
> 3-character extension.  Or it is on Windows anyway.

Breaking his months of silence, Jim Fisher responded with:

This doesn't seem like a good idea to me.  It's far too easy to rename a
file, extension and all.  True, you *could* say a person giving a glulx-only
blorb a z-code extension gets what he asks for, but I'd argue for letting
the an interpreter query the chunks and politely exit if it doesn't find
what it's looking for. 

For Windows machines I envision a font-end associated with the generic blorb
extension which interrogates chunk availability and launches the appropriate
terp.

-Jim