Posible to create filenames with colons?
Michael Eager
eager@eagercon.com
Mon Jun 23 18:19:00 GMT 2003
jordi wrote:
> As win FAT's doesn't allow any filename with that kind of characters
> (\,/,:,*,?,",<,>,|), would like to know if a sometimes used character like
> colon ":", can be mapped through cygwin as it just does with slashes. Could
> be possible? Thanks.
There are a few packages (Perl for example) which create file names
with colons. Windows doesn't like this.
It would be good if Cygwin mapped these into something compatible,
say, an equal sign.
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