Am Wed, 7 Jul 2021 12:25:29 -0600 schrieb Alan Braslau:

> Windows, I believe, does not take kindly to filenames containing
> multiple dots.
> 
> Therefore, Hans never uses such filenames and does not expect them,
> either, so I am not surprised that this yields unpredictable results.
> 
> An unfortunate side-effect of dealing with Windows.

Sorry but this is nonsense. I have seen many files with lots of dots
in windows and it works fine.

I wouldn't do it in tex, but not because of the OS but because until
a few years you could run into problems with some tex applications
or macros which didn't expect many dots.  




-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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