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From:	"Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
To:	"Dieter Meinert" <DMeinert AT RosenInspection DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:26:56 +1100
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A quick search for illegal filename characters
gives  " * / : < > ? \ |  (and the null character) for fat32/ntfs - more for
fat16/12 - the null character is also out of the question.

So what you ask 'just isnt possible' with the underlying filesystem.

Gareth

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Just out of curiosity triggered by this thread:

How do I create a path or file name like <quote>& ?</quote>
?
Neither of Unix' ways: <quote>touch \&\ \?</quote> or
<quote>touch '& ?'</quote>
nor <quote>touch '\&\ \?'</quote>  apparently work.

 Regards
  Dieter Meinert


|=> -----Original Message-----
|=> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
|=> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:53 AM
|=> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
|=> Subject: Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
|=> Importance: High
|=>
|=>
|=> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:43:28PM +1100, Gareth Pearce
|wrote: => >> Cygwin "likes" paths with backslashes in
|them.  It now  => just wisely
|=> >> assumes that such paths are windows paths.  As I'm
|sure you know, => >> you don't use '/' to denote a UNIX
|path.
|=> >
|=> >^
|=> >meanness detected.
|=>
|=> Actually, more like stupidity (mine) detected.  I meant
|to  => say "...you
|=> don't use '\' to denote a UNIX path".
|=>
|=> cgf
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