Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Tony Arnold" To: Subject: RE: maildir file names illegal on cygwin? Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:22:04 +0100 Organization: University of Manchester Message-ID: <31CB870AD5AA384BB5419025DD9F7A841042ED@dailymail.cfs.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 In-Reply-To: <20020703214021.A78385@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> Importance: Normal Greg, > Are colons ':' illegal in cygwin file names? Every filename I > try to touch with a colon in it, backslashed or not, returns > this message: Remember the underlying file system is a Windows one (FAT or NTFS) and that uses : to separate drive letter from file name, so I suspect it is not allowed in Windows file names. > lang@afluser ~/.cpanplus/build/Mail-Box-2.016 > $ touch 110000006.l.43:2, > touch: creating `110000006.l.43:2,': No such file or directory When I do this on XP, the file gets created, but the name is truncated at the :. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Deputy to the Head of COS Division, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/