On  in a message to Mike Stella, Erik Sundquist wrote:

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.  OS/2 ignores the trailing . just like DOS
MS> does, on both FAT and HPFS.

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 try this?  Because it doesn't work.


Ed Blackman

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