On 2/25/2017 8:13 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, cyg Simple! > >> Also a : isn't a valid character for a name in Windows. Cygwin uses >> some magic to represent it in UNICODE format though. > > It isn't a valid file "name" character, yes, but it is still a meaningful > character in pathname under windows. > Just the meaning of it is far from regular file name semantics. >
Not when specifying ./a:b which was the example being discussed. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
