Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Ross MacGillivray Subject: File Naming Between Cygwin and Windows Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 05:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 14 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes I am trying to access via a cygwin application a file called kdeinit-127.0.0.1:0. The filename is generated within the software, so it is not trivial to change the file name in the file access via the file system. However the underlying Windows file system does not accept colons (:), so the file is actually called kdeinit-127.0.0.1_0. How does cygwin deal with characters not accepted by the windows file system such as colon(:). Does it translate these characters automtically in file system calls? /Ross -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/