Proposal for std.path replacement

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:37:15 +0200, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> 
> wrote:
>
>> What about "file."? I tried it on NTFS, but trailing '.' seems to always 
>> be cut off.
>
> It's possible to create files and directories with one trailing dot on 
> Windows/NTFS. FAR Manager allows doing this, for example. I'm not sure if 
> the implementation does anything special to achieve this, but it's not 
> impossible. (Ditto with leading and trailing spaces.)
>
> By the way, not sure if it's been mentioned in this discussion but:
>
> ".exe" is an executable file with no name. It's perfectly valid.
>

It ain't valid when optlink creates it ;)