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RE: Valid file-name characters
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "Cygwin Discussion" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:03:00 -0500
- Subject: RE: Valid file-name characters
> 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)?
>
This would allow mh and maildir mailboxes to work fully in mutt etc. As long as
it would cause no problems with anything else, I don't see why not.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.
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