On 3/1/2017 8:12 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, cyg Simple! > >> 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. > > We were discussing "a:b", not "./a:b".
Then you need to re-read the elided content. An example of ./a:b was given and what I responded to. -- 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
