Why .jpeg -vs- .jpg ?

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 14:05 -0600, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> Why do some image viewers force the use of a .jpeg suffix
> instead of just using the more universal .jpg suffix?

I would think that any program wpould recognized either, same with .tif
vs. .tiff

I believe the four character extension came first but DOS and early
versions of Windoze could only recognize a three character extension.

Dennis Kibbe 
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