Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:02:16 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:16:54 +0100
> 
> Given that ':' is illegal in a name, there's no reason not to do the
> substitution unconditionally (maybe man could always replace illegal
> chars with _ (in case some man page is called 'foo*.1').

I'd say "foo*.1" is quite crazy: Unix users will have lots of trouble
with such a name.  Even Foo::bar.1 is already not very wise, due to
the special use of the colon.