Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Preferences module name limitation

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 20:44:56 -0800
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 09:49:49PM -0600, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> Is it safe to add a test of *p == '.' to this? I mean, it *works*,
> but does it break any other assumptions?

The only reason for the tests is to keep people from putting in names
that are a pain to type on the command line.

As such, there's no reason not to add '.' to the list of legal
characters.