On Friday 08 October 2010 10:41:40 DaZZa wrote:

> Because the over-lying system which interacts with the Unix filesystem
> doesn't deal with filenames which begin with a -. it breaks essential
> functionality when manipulating the files from the higher layer
> program.

What program is that? I don't recall any serious program that could not deal 
rationally with such file names.
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