strange php on debian

[Bill Warner]

I am working on setting up a php apache mysql debian box for a friend. 
I am not a php programmer but there is something strange going on.  On a
machine with php 4.1.7 compiled from source the 
require_once("file.db.php");
works but useing the debian package it doesn't seem to work right. 
unless it has only one dot in the file name like:
require_once("filedb.php");
is this a php compile option of some kind?  This just doesn't seem
right.  Does anyone know what I'm talking about.

Thanks
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Bill Warner <wwarner@direct-alliance.com>
Direct Alliance