Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20

[Ken Brown]

On 10/6/2015 10:59 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> I'm more puzzled by the file name, though. While colons are allowed in Windows
> file names, they bear special meaning of referencing streams within a file.
> And they can't be nested.
> And Cygwin seems to be blissfully unaware of their existence.

No, Cygwin has a special way of handling colons in file names, so that 
Windows doesn't see them as colons:

 
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars

Ken


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