Re: [chip@xxxxxxxxxx: Bug#206475: Decoding filename with trailing dot doesn't imply suffix]

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According to Colin Watson:
> Perhaps '_' could also be allowed following '.' - I seem to remember
> that happening occasionally back when I used to use Windows.

I suppose it doesn't matter much either way.  FWIW, I don't think I've
ever seen any file type suffix that starts with '_', and underscores are
sometimes used in Usenet binary filenames to stand in for spaces.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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