> Well, that's Windows' handling a rename......however it's still a valid filename (it > won't be if you try to use for example \:<>|)
it was caused by 1 billion dumb people that bought Windows. If everyone had just said no to windows and stuck with DOS (or some other alternative) we wouldn't have a billion dumb computer users who only know how to click an icon and we wouldn't have those types of filenames being valid ;-)