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Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:44:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars
- References: <48AF247F.2050300@users.sourceforge.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
"Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" wrote:
> 1) Completely remove the /::/./ substitution in both man and perl for 1.7;
> 2) Have man look for both '.' and '::'.
How about
3) Perpetuate the s/::/./ workaround in Cygport so that manpages
continue to be generated with '.'.
Rationale: Support for : in filenames in 1.7 only works with local NTFS
and remote NFS drives; local non-NTFS and remote samba volumes will
fail. For example, if recent list traffic is any indication, running
Cygwin off a portable Flash drive is becoming a popular topic again with
the /etc/fstab change, and most of those devices are formatted FAT.
Brian
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