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.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hack]$ cd tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ touch a.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Kampbj�rn
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