Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010419101616.0219eca0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:16:48 -0400 To: "Ralf Habacker" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Problems with illegal characters in Pathnames In-Reply-To: <002f01c0c8d4$fbc186c0$6e032bb7@BRAMSCHE> References: <229D7C0FE0BED311A0E800805F0DD47176CB58@wn01ex.wn.gb.solvay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:31 AM 4/19/2001, Ralf Habacker wrote: >Hi, > >I'm porting applications for Windows (using X11 and KDE) and one often >recognized problem is that application using >the content of the DISPLAY environment variable to generate filenames >directly. Under Windows character ':' and some other aren't allowed for >filenames, so this applications will fail on running. > >I've found a function "mount_info::conv_to_win32_path" in the cygwin >library. Is it possible, that this function can convert illegal filename >characters to valid ? I'm not sure but you can either try it or look at the code to see if it will do this for you. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple