Why doesn't Explorer let you create a file whose name begins with a dot?

Raymond ChenApril 14, 2008Apr 14, 200804/14/08

Rolf Viehmann asks why Explorer doesn't let you create a file whose name begins with a dot. Such files are considered to have an extension but no name. If the extension is known and the user has chosen to hide known extensions, the resulting file would have no name at all! If you really want to create a file with a leading dot in its name, ...