man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

[Brian Dessent]

"Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" wrote:

> 1) Completely remove the /::/./ substitution in both man and perl for 1.7;
> 2) Have man look for both '.' and '::'.

How about

3) Perpetuate the s/::/./ workaround in Cygport so that manpages
continue to be generated with '.'.

Rationale: Support for : in filenames in 1.7 only works with local NTFS
and remote NFS drives; local non-NTFS and remote samba volumes will
fail.  For example, if recent list traffic is any indication, running
Cygwin off a portable Flash drive is becoming a popular topic again with
the /etc/fstab change, and most of those devices are formatted FAT.

Brian

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