On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:59:22AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, trebol wrote: > > Well, ':' it seems to allowed. From > > > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx > > > > [...] In both NTFS and FAT file systems, the special file name > > characters are: '\', '/', '.', '?', and '*' [...] > > Windows 7 and 10 disagree, even trying to type a : in a file name gives an > immediate popup warning.
Ah, I mixed it up. My set of chars was the win32 file name restrictions. But with posix subsystem or similar you could use more chars, depending on the file system. Martin
