On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:19, Terry R. Grier wrote: > ...Hello. > > I am used to name my files under XP this way. > > 'terry.whatever.month.day.year' > I would separate with the '.' ... and it apears in certain programs that > the '.' makes programs think that after the '.' that is the ext. and > that I am saving the file incorrectly. .... dots are perfectly valid characters for filenames. If a certain app can not handle such filenames correctly then the app is faulty and a bugreport should be filed to the authors. -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt