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From: "Tony Arnold" <tony DOT arnold AT man DOT ac DOT uk>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: maildir file names illegal on cygwin?
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:22:04 +0100
Organization: University of Manchester
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Greg,

> Are colons ':' illegal in cygwin file names? Every filename I 
> try to touch with a colon in it, backslashed or not, returns 
> this message:

Remember the underlying file system is a Windows one (FAT or NTFS) and
that uses : to separate drive letter from file name, so I suspect it is
not allowed in Windows file names.

> lang AT afluser ~/.cpanplus/build/Mail-Box-2.016
> $ touch 110000006.l.43:2,
> touch: creating `110000006.l.43:2,': No such file or directory

When I do this on XP, the file gets created, but the name is truncated
at the :.

Regards,
Tony.
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