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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:58:39 -0700
From: Michael Eager <eager AT eagercon DOT com>
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To: jordi <vklengh AT menta DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Posible to create filenames with colons?
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jordi wrote:
> As win FAT's doesn't allow any filename with that kind of characters
> (\,/,:,*,?,",<,>,|), would like to know if a sometimes used character like
> colon ":", can be mapped through cygwin as it just does with slashes. Could
> be possible? Thanks.

There are a few packages (Perl for example) which create file names
with colons.  Windows doesn't like this.

It would be good if Cygwin mapped these into something compatible,
say, an equal sign.

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