At 07:46 -0400 on 09/24/2013, John Gilmore wrote about Re: DSNAME Syntax:

The 'period' problem is an old one.  It has a syntactic function in
DSN[AME]= values, and it is out of place as the first character in a
standard one.

It also is an "Invisible" dataset in HFS/etc. type directories.

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