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Thanks,
I didn't realize the possibility of illegal characters,
just hit some
non-alphanumeric keys.
And another check with <quote>touch a\ \&\ o</quote> worked
as expected.
Regards
Dieter Meinert
|=> -----Original Message-----
|=> From: Gareth Pearce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|=> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 9:27 AM
|=> To: Dieter Meinert; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|=> Subject: Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
|=>
|=>
|=> A quick search for illegal filename characters
|=> gives " * / : < > ? \ | (and the null character) for
|=> fat32/ntfs - more for
|=> fat16/12 - the null character is also out of the
|question. =>
|=> So what you ask 'just isnt possible' with the
|underlying filesystem. =>
|=> Gareth
|=>
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|=>
|=> Just out of curiosity triggered by this thread:
|=>
|=> How do I create a path or file name like <quote>&
|?</quote> => ?
|=> Neither of Unix' ways: <quote>touch \&\ \?</quote> or
|=> <quote>touch '& ?'</quote>
|=> nor <quote>touch '\&\ \?'</quote> apparently work.
|=>
|=> Regards
|=> Dieter Meinert
|=>
|=>
|=> |=> -----Original Message-----
|=> |=> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|=> |=> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:53 AM
|=> |=> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|=> |=> Subject: Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
|=> |=> Importance: High
|=> |=>
|=> |=>
|=> |=> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:43:28PM +1100, Gareth
|Pearce => |wrote: => >> Cygwin "likes" paths with
|backslashes in
|=> |them. It now => just wisely
|=> |=> >> assumes that such paths are windows paths. As
|I'm => |sure you know, => >> you don't use '/' to denote a
|UNIX => |path.
|=> |=> >
|=> |=> >^
|=> |=> >meanness detected.
|=> |=>
|=> |=> Actually, more like stupidity (mine) detected. I
|meant => |to => say "...you
|=> |=> don't use '\' to denote a UNIX path".
|=> |=>
|=> |=> cgf
|=> |=>
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