X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <9b18a3a50805070604i2c36dfa9g437c1749876dca31@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:04:11 -0400 From: "Richard Campbell" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 2.573.2.2 wget not possible creating files with question mark ? in name In-Reply-To: <2065.192.87.93.207.1210165777.squirrel@mjopr.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2065.192.87.93.207.1210165777.squirrel@mjopr.nl> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 5/7/08, Pander wrote: > > When using cygwin 2.573.2.2 wget on Windows XP Professional 2002 SP 2 it > is not possible for wget to write or update files with questionmark ? in > name. ? is an illegal character in the native windows filesystems. Cygwin has a feature to automatically rename illegal characters, managed mounts. See http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.case-sensitive > Also it is not possible to extracting tar files in cygwin containting the > results of wget done on a POSIX machine. This is likely the result of the tar file having an illegal filename, based on your previous comment. > If question mark is not possible to use on this file system at all, It is not. > please consider altering wget to circumvent this. Managed mounts exist to automatically do the renaming for you. See the previous link. -Richard Campbell. -- 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/