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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: "Cygwin Discussion" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Valid file-name characters
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:03:00 -0500
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> 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)?
>

This would allow mh and maildir mailboxes to work fully in mutt etc.  As long as
it would cause no problems with anything else, I don't see why not.

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.


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