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From: robins@nac.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: (one more time) HPFS: names with trailing dots?
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Date: 13 Mar 90 20:14:01 GMT
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        (Well, I'll try again.  Sorry)

        Can a file on an HPFS drive have trailing dots?  If no, why not?

        I see nothing in the documentation (I have both IBM's and MS's 1.2
        toolkits) that excludes this.

        Yet my test program passes "This file has dots........" to DosOpen
        and DosOpen returns 0, but the file created is "This file has dots".

        If I pass "This file has dots.................also" to DosOpen,
        it gets created fine.  So it isn't multiple dots that are the
        problem.

        Thanks for your patience,
        ScottR