--- In guide-user@y..., paul <astro@p...> wrote:

> since it seemed to me that in win2000 the file was not
> named with an extension even though the system called it

WIndoze has this wonderful "feature," on by default,
I always turn it off, called "hide file extensions for
known file types." Why this would ever be a good thing
is beyond me...it certainly can be a bad thing, as you
have demonstrated!

--mark h