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From:	Ross MacGillivray <ross_macgillivray AT yahoo DOT ca>
Subject:	File Naming Between Cygwin and Windows
Date:	Sat, 9 Jul 2005 05:03:57 +0000 (UTC)
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I am trying to access via a cygwin application a file called kdeinit-127.0.0.1:0.
The filename is generated within the software, so it is not trivial to change
the file name in the file access via the file system.  

However the underlying Windows file system does not accept colons (:), so the
file is actually called kdeinit-127.0.0.1_0.

How does cygwin deal with characters not accepted by the windows file system
such as colon(:).  Does it translate these characters automtically in file
system calls?

/Ross
  


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