> COMPATIBILITY
>      Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'')
>      character to distinguish the group name.  Begining with FreeBSD
>      4.0, this has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that
>      user and group names may contain the dot character.

Hum... I think I should change this text slightly.  I should not refer to
chown(8) so strongly.  It's on my list now.  :-)
 
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