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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:50:07 -0400
To: Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT teknowledge DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names
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At 02:38 PM 4/5/2001, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just discovered some odd behavior.
>
>Witness:
>
>% mkdir dir
>% cd dir
>% ls -l
>total 0
>% echo "I like Cygwin" >|File
>% ls -l
>total 0
>-rw-r--r--   1 randall  None           15 Apr  5 11:31 File
>%
>% ls -l File.
>-rw-r--r--   1 randall  None           15 Apr  5 11:31 File.
>%

<snip>



>Curious, no? Perhaps this is a side-effect of the potential aliasing of suffix-less names and the same name with a ".exe" suffix?


No, this is Windows madness.  It ignores periods at the end of file names.


Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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