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: <3EF723AF.9010602@eagercon.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:58:39 -0700 From: Michael Eager User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jordi CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Posible to create filenames with colons? References: <000901c33750$8b6f1490$29e0393e@dck> In-Reply-To: <000901c33750$8b6f1490$29e0393e@dck> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit jordi wrote: > As win FAT's doesn't allow any filename with that kind of characters > (\,/,:,*,?,",<,>,|), would like to know if a sometimes used character like > colon ":", can be mapped through cygwin as it just does with slashes. Could > be possible? Thanks. There are a few packages (Perl for example) which create file names with colons. Windows doesn't like this. It would be good if Cygwin mapped these into something compatible, say, an equal sign. -- Michael Eager Eager Consulting eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/