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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:55:43PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: >Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> ... >>> Or, just for kicks, try to create a file "abc:def:ghi" under 1.5 or, >>> FWIW, under CMD. >> Well, I wanted to withdraw my arguments when I read this but then I >> simply tried in 1.5 and it worked quite well... >Where I visually mistook the second ":" for a "." however... (blush). >Anyway, maybe some syntax could be found that would not be too harmful >to become "reserved" for this purpose... ><end:of:rationale:for:weird:feature> Sorry but I agree with Corinna. On linux/UNIX you can create a file with a colon in it. We can now do this in Cygwin 1.7 and that's a good thing. Complicating the path handling to deal specially with colons in a filename doesn't sound like a good idea to me. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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