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Subject: RE: Mixing / and \ path separators
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:45:13 +0100
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Thanks,

I didn't realize the possibility of illegal characters,
just hit some 
non-alphanumeric keys.

And another check with <quote>touch a\ \&\ o</quote> worked
as expected.


 Regards
 							Dieter Meinert
 

|=> -----Original Message-----
|=> From: Gareth Pearce [mailto:tilps AT hotmail DOT com]
|=> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 9:27 AM
|=> To: Dieter Meinert; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
|=> Subject: Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
|=> 
|=> 
|=> A quick search for illegal filename characters
|=> gives  " * / : < > ? \ |  (and the null character) for 
|=> fat32/ntfs - more for
|=> fat16/12 - the null character is also out of the
|question. => 
|=> So what you ask 'just isnt possible' with the
|underlying filesystem. => 
|=> Gareth
|=> 
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|=> 
|=> Just out of curiosity triggered by this thread:
|=> 
|=> How do I create a path or file name like <quote>&
|?</quote> => ?
|=> Neither of Unix' ways: <quote>touch \&\ \?</quote> or
|=> <quote>touch '& ?'</quote>
|=> nor <quote>touch '\&\ \?'</quote>  apparently work.
|=> 
|=>  Regards
|=>   Dieter Meinert
|=> 
|=> 
|=> |=> -----Original Message-----
|=> |=> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
|=> |=> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:53 AM
|=> |=> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
|=> |=> Subject: Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
|=> |=> Importance: High
|=> |=>
|=> |=>
|=> |=> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:43:28PM +1100, Gareth
|Pearce => |wrote: => >> Cygwin "likes" paths with
|backslashes in
|=> |them.  It now  => just wisely
|=> |=> >> assumes that such paths are windows paths.  As
|I'm => |sure you know, => >> you don't use '/' to denote a
|UNIX => |path.
|=> |=> >
|=> |=> >^
|=> |=> >meanness detected.
|=> |=>
|=> |=> Actually, more like stupidity (mine) detected.  I
|meant => |to  => say "...you
|=> |=> don't use '\' to denote a UNIX path".
|=> |=>
|=> |=> cgf
|=> |=>
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