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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To:	"'Nicholas Wourms'" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>,
	"'David A. Cobb'" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net>
Cc:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Valid file-name characters
Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:53:05 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Wourms
> Sent: Monday, 22 July 2002 5:47 PM
> To: David A. Cobb
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
> 
> 
> 
> --- egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Saturday, 20 July, 2002 David A. Cobb superbiskit AT cox DOT net wrote:
> > 
> > DAC> Back in May (where I'm still trying to catch up) there was a
> > discussion 
> > DAC> starting at 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-> 05/msg01041.html 
> > DAC> 
> concerning a colon in a filename -- 
> valid in *nix, not in Windows. 
> > 
> > 
> > DAC> Also, we get repeated griping about the encoding of 
> URI's in the
> > local 
> > DAC> package cache.  
> > 
> > DAC> Would you consider a patch that translated filenames containing
> > special 
> > DAC> characters: the Cygwin user would see "aux:" but 
> Windows would see 
> > DAC> "aux%??" (I don't recall the encoding of colon)?
> > 
> > The only problem here is what to do if cygwin user wants to create
> > both aux: and aux%
> 
> Use the euro symbol (ˆ)[Alt+0128] instead?  It is highly 
> unlikely that a
> user will want to create auxˆ.  Anyhow, I believe all 
> versions of windows
> (via windows update if necessary) have support for the ˆ.

I was just about to suggest that whatever character is used is used as
an escape char rather than a literal replacement.

i.e. 
WIN32      CYGWIN
'aux%c' -> 'aux:'
'aux%%' -> 'aux%'

Cheers,
Rob 


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