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What's happening is that Emacs discards "/." before it even looks
at the file.  It always does that.  This is not an inconsistancy;
on the contrary, Emacs is treating "/." in a consistent way
where other programs treat it specially.

That's not to say that what Emacs does is necessarily better.
But I don't want to try to change it.