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Re: OT pondering (WAS: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names)

To: jmerz42 at earthlink dot net
Subject: Re: OT pondering (WAS: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names)
From: Andrew Markebo <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>
Date: 05 Apr 2001 21:09:54 +0200
Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
References: <4.3.1.2.20010405144831.021f9008@pop.ma.ultranet.com><3ACCC15F.20606@earthlink.net>

/ Jonathon Merz <jmerz42@earthlink.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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References:
- Re: Trailing Periods on File Names
  - From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
- OT pondering (WAS: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names)
  - From: Jonathon Merz

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