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". -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, March 1, 2017 16:11:45 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
