"Steven Schveighoffer" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:op.vrn0zlu4eav7ka@steve-laptop... > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:50:53 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "Daniel Gibson" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> >>> 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. > > I would say it is not an extension, it is the filename. On unix only > though.
As a windows guy, I would want windows builds to handle that however unix handles it. Filenames that start with a dot are not at all a windows thing, but on windows there *is* often a need to deal with unix files or unix tools. For instance, when using Apache or developing for an external Apache server even windows users still need to deal with .htaccess. And when they do, it needs to work right.
