From: utzoo!decvax!duke!dennis
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Down with files that begin with a dot
Article-I.D.: duke.2625
Posted: Tue Oct 12 23:52:01 1982
Received: Sun Oct 17 22:19:10 1982
References: watmath.3612

Amdahl's UTS UNIX implementation uses the directory name "..." as a
directory to hold files named ".*".   This seems like a reasonable choice.