>> Anyway, if the user finds that an application doesn't try to load a file >> whose name ends in .tga as a Targa file (or worse, attempts to load it as >> a Group 3 fax file), then the same user will assume that the application, >> or its programmers, or both, are stupid beyond belief. And rightly so :-) > >I would prefer a program that loads a group3 Fax file even if it is >named .tga I cannot believe that such a situation would be more common than attempting to load a properly named Targa file. You can always set the format manually, but the automatic mechanism should be optimized for the common case.