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Re: Posible to create filenames with colons?


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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