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Windows doesn't like dot-files and it is not possible to create a
dot-file by renaming using the GUI, but if the file is renamed using
the command line (or uploaded via FTP; there are probably several ways)
Windows lets you access the file like any other one.
[I have tested 98SE and XP Pro.]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> [...]
> Also, I was thinking of making the file ".robots.txt" since many Unix
> gophers don't serve dot-files, although there are a growing number of
> Windows-hosted gophers and I don't know if it will break these (I
> don't
> do x86 myself).