-=> Quoting Mike Stella to Rob Landley <=-

 MS> A creature called Rob Landley screamed at Peter Hansen:

 RL> In unix, the period is considered a normal part of the
 RL> filename.  Thus you can have two distinct files called
 RL> "spam" and "spam."

 RL> In OS/2, under HPFS, I believe it works like unix.
 MS>
 MS> Nope.  I just copied a file to two names, spam and spam. and they
 MS> were both  the same file.  OS/2 ignores the trailing . just like DOS
 MS> does, on both FAT and HPFS.

Mike,

        To have the trailing . to show up, you have to have "" around
the name, EI: copy spam "spam."  Then you will see spam and spam.
Be careful, I made a type the other day and had a file called
doom..zip, was a big pain to figure out why I couldn't unzip it in
DOS, till I saw it in OS/2 that it had two ..


                                        Erik

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