In a message on 03-28-95, Erik Sundquist said to Mike Stella:

RL> In OS/2, under HPFS, I believe it works like unix.

MS> Nope.  I just copied a file to two names, spam and spam. and they
MS> were both  the same file.  

ES>        To have the trailing . to show up, you have to have "" around
ES>the name, EI: copy spam "spam."  Then you will see spam and spam. 

Did you even _try_ this?  Under OS/2 that command returns the error
message "SYS1078: The file cannot be copied onto itself."  

As I originally stated with a reference to the docs from DevCon3, and as
several others have confirmed, you _cannot_ have filenames with trailing
periods under OS/2.  Although I haven't checked this with TVFS, it is
explicitly forbidden in OS/2 file systems and should not be allowed
anywhere.

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