At 08:48 PM 11/4/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote:
>For that matter, why are we avoiding filenames with more then one dot?  It'd
>be easy to teach a Makefile to get core.ops.c from core.ops; much harder to
>tell it how to get core_ops.c.  (Note that in the current Makefile, we
>special-case it.)

Some platforms only allow a single dot in their filenames. (Could be 
worse--we could be shooting for 8.3 uniqueness...)

                                        Dan

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