"Daniel Gibson" <metalcae...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ikij1r$e1i$1...@digitalmars.com... > > The "." at the start is Unix convention to say "this is a hidden > file/folder", this means "ls" (the unix equivalent to "dir") doesn't list > them (ls -a does, though) and most file browsers only list them when you > select something like "show hidden files" or "show dot files". >
I know. I was just wondering how the semantics of "name" and "extension" applied to them.
