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RE: Valid file-name characters



> -----Original Message-----
> From: egor duda [mailto:deo@logos-m.ru] 
> Sent: Monday, 22 July 2002 6:07 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: 'David A. Cobb'; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Monday, 22 July, 2002 Robert Collins 
> robert.collins@syncretize.net wrote:
> 
> RC> I was just about to suggest that whatever character is 
> used is used as
> RC> an escape char rather than a literal replacement.
> 
> RC> i.e. 
> RC> WIN32      CYGWIN
> 'aux%c' ->> 'aux:'
> 'aux%%' ->> 'aux%'
> 
> which means that
> 
> s='a%%'
> touch $s
> notepad $s
> 
> won't work.

Unless cygwin detects that notepad is a non cygwin program, and therefor
needs the on-disk name.

With 
'aux%' -> 'aux:'

s='aux:'
touch $s
notepad $s

won't work either - unless cygwin detects that notepad...

Rob


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