29 Aug
2006
29 Aug
'06
12:10 a.m.
This does not
describe any even vaguely Unixish system in my
experience. All of them handle such things just fine - indeed, I
have a number of plain text documentation files named something.doc
on my home machines.
Some builds of GNU gzip will indeed hurl on a file not named
to its
taste. Note that I'm *not* disagreeing with you. As far as I'm
concerned that behavior breaks all kinds of conventions. But it is a
fact.