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Date:	Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:01:29 +0200
From:	Hack Kampbjorn <cygwin AT hack DOT kampbjorn DOT com>
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To:	ML CygWIN <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: [OT?] Strange filesystem behaviour
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Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
> Is there someone out there who can explain this... is it plain legacy?
> If there is no better explanation, lets just have it added to the archives.

It's a DOS legacy "feature". In the old 8+3 days there was no periode in 
filenmaes it was automatically inserted between characters 8 and 9. Hence Win32 
filesystem now remove any trailing periods.

[hack AT winsat hack]$ cd tmp
[hack AT winsat tmp]$ ls -las
total 0
    0 drwxrwxrwx+   2 hack     hack            0 Jun  1 16:55 .
    0 drwxrwxrwx+  10 root     None         8192 Jun  1 16:55 ..
[hack AT winsat tmp]$ touch a..
[hack AT winsat tmp]$ ls -las
total 0
    0 drwxrwxrwx+   2 hack     hack            0 Jun  1 16:55 .
    0 drwxrwxrwx+  10 root     None         8192 Jun  1 16:55 ..
    0 -rw-rw-rw-    1 hack     hack            0 Jun  1 16:55 a
[hack AT winsat tmp]$

> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden, 59~14'N, 17~12'E. >17~C avg/d now.
> ~ <=> degree


-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Hack Kampbjørn


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