Re: Use of colon in filenames

[Rolf Campbell <rcampbell at tropicnetworks dot com>]

C. Brian Jones wrote:
> All,
>
> Should attempts to create files such as "foo::bar" or "foo::bar::baz" 
> really cause a no such file error for 'touch', 'install', etc.?
>
> $ touch 'foo::bar'
> touch: creating `foo::bar': Invalid argument
>
> $ touch 'foo::bar::baz'
> touch: creating `foo::bar::baz': No such file or directory
>
> $ install foo bar::baz
> install: cannot create regular file `bar::baz': Invalid argument
>
> $ install foo bar::baz::bop
> install: cannot create regular file `bar::baz::bop': No such file or 
> directory
>
> Any way to get the more UNIX-like behavior?
>
> Brian


\ / : * ? " < > | are not allowed in ms-filenames.  There is no way to 
avoid this (without direct disk writes).



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