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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:03:44 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
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Hi!

Saturday, 20 July, 2002 David A. Cobb superbiskit AT cox DOT net wrote:

DAC> Back in May (where I'm still trying to catch up) there was a discussion 
DAC> starting at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01041.html 
DAC> concerning a colon in a filename -- valid in *nix, not in Windows.  

DAC> Also, we get repeated griping about the encoding of URI's in the local 
DAC> package cache.  

DAC> Would you consider a patch that translated filenames containing special 
DAC> characters: the Cygwin user would see "aux:" but Windows would see 
DAC> "aux%??" (I don't recall the encoding of colon)?

The only problem here is what to do if cygwin user wants to create
both aux: and aux%

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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