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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:02:55 -0500
From: Jonathon Merz <jmerz42 AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: OT pondering (WAS: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names)
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Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

> 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.
> 

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?



 


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