<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Frerich Raabe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raabe@froglogic.com" target="_blank">raabe@froglogic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">However, according to Niklas Larsson, "The extension wasn't really part of the filename in those days." so I guess I stand corrected.</blockquote>
</div><br>Yes. It's a rather ugly bit of hackishness that Microsoft actually tried to clean up in MS-DOS 2 (with AVAILDEV), but that broke too many programs so we're stuck with it now.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>
-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>                                  <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div>
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