I have noticed that some man pages, for example perl modules below the root namespace, are installed as Foo.Bar instead of Foo::Bar because apparently windows file names cannot contain "::". Eg.
$ touch 'Foo::Bar' touch: creating `Foo::Bar': Invalid argument This is sufficiently different from UNIX to trip most people up, especially those working with Perl. Further, filenames with one colon do work, e.g. Touch 'Foo:Bar'. For this reason I propose changing the "man" command in Cygwin to take the special case of "::" into account and convert it to a ".", iff the file containing "::" does not exist (might be supported in the future.) If this is considered a good idea I'll be happy to make the patch. Cheers, -- Rafael -- 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/
