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: "Robert Collins" To: "'egor duda'" Cc: "'David A. Cobb'" Subject: RE: Valid file-name characters Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:22:43 +1000 Message-ID: <000601c23161$55d02bd0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <119344983760.20020722120714@logos-m.ru> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal > -----Original Message----- > From: egor duda [mailto:deo@logos-m.ru] > Sent: Monday, 22 July 2002 6:07 PM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: 'David A. Cobb'; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters > > > Hi! > > Monday, 22 July, 2002 Robert Collins > robert.collins@syncretize.net wrote: > > RC> I was just about to suggest that whatever character is > used is used as > RC> an escape char rather than a literal replacement. > > RC> i.e. > RC> WIN32 CYGWIN > 'aux%c' ->> 'aux:' > 'aux%%' ->> 'aux%' > > which means that > > s='a%%' > touch $s > notepad $s > > won't work. Unless cygwin detects that notepad is a non cygwin program, and therefor needs the on-disk name. With 'aux%' -> 'aux:' s='aux:' touch $s notepad $s won't work either - unless cygwin detects that notepad... Rob -- 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/