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Subject:	Re: OT pondering (WAS: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names)
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From:	Andrew Markebo <flognat AT flognat DOT myip DOT org>
Date:	05 Apr 2001 21:09:54 +0200
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/ Jonathon Merz <jmerz42 AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
|[...]
| I agree with that, having seen this before, but I am curious... It
| seems that such functionality did not get there by accident (I cannot
| think of a way to ignore characters in a filename without some _extra_
| coding), so it must have been done for some purpose.  Yet I cannot for
| the life of me imagine what benefit this produces, or what fault it
| would circumvent.  Anyone have ideas as to this?

Uh.. say something 'rational' microsoft has done?? :-) Isn't windows
9x one of the great accidents of today?? ;-)

        /Andy

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