In , on 01/11/05 
   at 07:35 PM, David Eckard  typed:

>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.

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