Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3CD497B9.1010507@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 22:23:53 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Collins CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe (2-194-2-26) - blind or stupid? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Collins wrote: > >>And, one more problem. Or not a problem? >>I'm not have to see directories like http%3someone. His name (contains >>percents) potentially destructive. >> > > Whats destructive about a %? Its not an escape character for shell utilities or windows AFAIK. Actaully, it's the variable replacement character for command.com and cmd.exe, similar to the $ char in every other shell known to mankind, except that the variable must be prefixed AND appended with the % char: > echo %USERNAME% cwilson > However, I don't see how that could cause a problem -- unless someone was attempting to TYPE the directory name by hand into a command.com shell (without bash)...and even THEN it probably wouldn't HURT anything... --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/