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Re: Valid file-name characters
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at cox dot net>, Cygwin Discussion <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:46:25 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
--- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:
> Back in May (where I'm still trying to catch up) there was a discussion
> starting at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01041.html
> concerning a colon in a filename -- valid in *nix, not in Windows.
>
> Also, we get repeated griping about the encoding of URI's in the local
> package cache.
>
> Would you consider a patch that translated filenames containing special
> characters: the Cygwin user would see "aux:" but Windows would see
> "aux%??" (I don't recall the encoding of colon)?
>
That sounds awesome, just like symlinks!
Cheers,
Nicholas
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