And it was merely not recommended to use a fullstop at the start of a filename. Device drivers —perhaps just for storage devices — were usually named this way (

And it was merely not recommended to use a fullstop at the start of a filename. Device drivers —perhaps just for storage devices — were usually named this way (and also marked invisible). There was an alleged chance the OS would try to load your non-driver file as a driver for the device it resided on. Though I was unable to make it happen.