X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_LW,TW_RW,TW_SR,TW_WX,TW_XR,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <4DE582FC.5000605@tlinx.org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:08:28 -0700
From: Linda Walsh <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: allowed Linux characters (and windows substitutes)...
References: <31711163 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <31711163.post@talk.nabble.com>
X-Stationery: 0.5.1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

sweinberger wrote:
 
> Since ":" and "\" are not acceptable characters in a Linux path, I had to
> work around the problem. 
----
	I don't know where you got this idea, but on linux, you can put 
: and "\" in filenames just fine.   Only "/" and "\000" (ASCII NUL) can't
be in a _file_name ("/", obviously works fine in pathnames).



/home> uname --kernel-name --hardware-platform
/home> llg -d C*
drwsrwsr-x  4 lw  devel    4096 May 29 10:38 CPAN-ishtar-build-cache/
drwxrwx--- 65 lw  lwgrp    4096 Mar  2  2010 C:\Windows/


Note in my "C:\Windows" dir, that's a real colon and backslash, 

Not the "full-width" or "presentation forms" one has to use to get a similar
filename on Windows...

Colon:      "："    U+FE13 (Presentation Form for Vertical Colon)
Backslash:  "＼"    U+FF3C (FullWidth Reverse Solidus)

There also also 'small colon and small reverse solidus' but I've not
used them but they would also appear to work to _display_ a colon and
backslash in a windows filename.

However, on Linux the 'ascii' versions work just fine.  0x3a(colon) & 
0x5c(backslash/reverse solidus).

Note, : and \ have no special meaning on linux -- so they are not device or
directory separators if that was something you needed.





 

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple