dot (.) files and directories

My ssh client is trying create a fdirectory ".ssh" and it is giving an
error, so I tried to create that directory and can't. In fact, I can't
create any file name starting with a '.' I get the error message 'You
must type a file name'. I could have sworn that I'd created such files
in the past...



According to this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_dewey/archive/2004/01/19/60263.aspx, the
NTFS/POSIX subsystem has few constraints and the Win32 subsystem (which
should be the bottleneck here restricts trailing dots and spaces and
name length, but I don't see anything about begining with a '.'

If Win32 truly does not allow filenames starting with a '.', then could
I advocate strings up the retards at MS would made such a design
decision. Is there something funny going on with my system or is this
another case where Linux/OS X/every other OS I've used is superior?

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