From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C515248.2B234C76@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Weirdness with 9660srv and file names (extensions)? References: <200201240322.WAA07918@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3C50B69F.C31D5AF2@invalid.address.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:40:40 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4575e4d8-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 bs wrote: > > I have seen this happen on a lot Unix systems too when I read > a CD burned by Adaptec CD burner s/w on a Windows system and the > file does not have an extension. Happened to me the other night. It decided that there was a file called .DOT and it really didn't like that. I think it had got confused over /usr/boyd/. or something, so I just renamed it to be x.DOT. Much as dd's syntax is gross, it does not ask you stupid questions.