In a message on 03-19-95, Rob Landley said to Peter Hansen:

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

I thought so.  That makes WATCOM's behaviour unusual at best.

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

No.  According to the file system documentation I read from DevCon 3,
trailing periods are illegal, or at least are simply ignored by an
application.  Something like "no filename may end in a period".

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