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From: "Yannick Duchêne Hibou57" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada.Directories.Base_Name and dot files
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:37:40 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-10-07T08:37:40-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a38fc23f-7910-4f3c-afd6-a15669953de1@r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b2bb6462-ac98-4324-98ea-55391a365dda@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com

On 7 oct, 17:10, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> It was pointed
> out that on Windows, a file named ".abc" is treated as any other file
> with an extension of .abc
That's a bit less clear on Windows
Windows XP accept the file names as valid on its file system, but the
Explorer does not allow to create such file names, complaining it is
an invalid file name. But it is still able to access it.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 12:40 Ada.Directories.Base_Name and dot files 
2009-10-07 14:46 ` Yannick Duchêne Hibou57
2009-10-07 17:06   ` 
2009-10-07 14:52 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-10-07 17:06   ` 
2009-10-07 15:10 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-10-07 15:37   ` Yannick Duchêne Hibou57 [this message]
2009-10-11  2:39     ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-07 20:11   ` 
2009-10-08  9:39 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-08  9:58   ` 
2009-10-26 19:26     ` Type casting Bruno
2009-10-26 20:02       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-26 20:09       ` Adam Beneschan
2009-10-26 19:27     ` Conversions Bruno
2009-10-26 20:09       ` Conversions Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-26 20:19       ` Conversions Adam Beneschan
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