On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Frerich Raabe <raabe@froglogic.com> wrote:
However, according to Niklas Larsson, "The extension wasn't really part of the filename in those days." so I guess I stand corrected.

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.

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