On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:04:15AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> Cygwin actually doesn't care how many .'s there are or characters after the
> ., so long as it fits in the Win32 filename maximum.
> 
Off topic, but possibly useful: beware of trailing dots, MS-DOS and
its offspring discard them.  It is obvious, once you've been alerted.

++L