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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:50:28 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
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At 16:18 2002-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote:
>...
>
>It only makes sense to me to escape characters that are a real problem ( 
>vs. a nuisance ) for one system or the other.  The ones I'm sure of in 
>Windoz are the colon and slashes.  Would Linux, for example, allow a file 
>with (shell-escapd) backslashes?  There are others, but I haven't done the 
>research yet.

See the attached GIF for Windows' reproach. If you don't care to do that, 
I'll transcribe:

         A filename [sic] cannot contain any of the following characters:
         \ / : * ? < > |

If (_if_) we're voting, count my vote on this whole idea as: AGAINST.

If this change is implemented, please, please make it an option. ("Cygwin 
is not Unix.")

Needless to say (?), if this is done, "cygpath" needs to reflect it, too.


>--
>David A. Cobb


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA

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