>>OS/2 has an algorithm that looks for the first period in the  file name.
>>It should look for the last period in a file name.  So far  as I know,
>>all other OSes do just that.

 JT> Not that simple - many of the windows virus attacks rode in
 JT> emails as filename.gif.exe or something like that; Outhouse
 JT> Express just showed the attachment as filename.gif.

/because/ the setting in the OS to display the (final) extension was turned
off... that was stupidity of the greatest measure on M$' part to make that
default to off... as i've ranted in many places over the years, people need
to take more time to /learn/ and /educate/ rather than remain ignorant and
blame everything else other than themselves and their own ignorance...

)\/(ark