On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:27, linda w (cyg) wrote: > A bit late to the party, I know, but wanted to chime in on the Cygwin > File::Spec discussion. I'm 'cc'ing the cygwin list as a "heads up" for any > interested parties. > > A more satisfactory mapping is to base "Cygwin" on Win32, not Unix. > > Cygwin, as an "OS interface" _partially_ supports posix mapping -- it supports > posix naming to the same extent the underlying Win32 OS supports it -- not > to the level Unix supports it. > > For example, > 1) "\:" are illegal in Cygwin pathnames as they are under Win32. Posix doesn't have >this difference.
Actually, IIRC neither | or : are in the POSIX "Portable file name character set". Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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