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That rather sounds like a Win32 API flaw, given that the command prompt hasn't been "MS-DOS" anymore for about twenty years now.
– grawity_u1686
Commented Nov 2, 2018 at 5:39
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Interestingly, If I try to delete the directory in windows explorer, it crashes when I created it with your version. When I created it with cygwin, it simply fails and says so.
– lucidbrot
Commented Nov 2, 2018 at 11:26
I have a DOS 3.3 and a DOS 6.0 machines and the commands work on them. When they switched to 32 bit the issue was still there. it works in the CMD window from win95 all the way up to today, including all server versions. Now that we're switching to Powershell It no longer works. I realized after I wrote that that it does create the directory but it doesn't provide the effect that the OP was seeing. If I try to CD into the directory with four dots it just kicks me back out.
– Larryc
Commented Nov 2, 2018 at 21:33
On my Windows 7 machine MD ....` only creates ....\....` tree - there is only one step of recursion.
– Tomáš Zato
Commented Nov 7, 2018 at 16:07
Curiously FAR manager doesn't see this as special in any way, and creates / renames / deletes / lists the contents of directories named "lots of dots" with no issues at all.
– RomanSt
Commented Nov 11, 2018 at 11:41

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