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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:46:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net>,
   Cygwin Discussion <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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--- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net> wrote:
> Back in May (where I'm still trying to catch up) there was a discussion 
> starting at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01041.html 
> concerning a colon in a filename -- valid in *nix, not in Windows.  
> 
> Also, we get repeated griping about the encoding of URI's in the local 
> package cache.  
> 
> Would you consider a patch that translated filenames containing special 
> characters: the Cygwin user would see "aux:" but Windows would see 
> "aux%??" (I don't recall the encoding of colon)?
> 

That sounds awesome, just like symlinks!

Cheers,
Nicholas

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