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On 10/6/2015 10:59 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
I'm more puzzled by the file name, though. While colons are allowed in Windows file names, they bear special meaning of referencing streams within a file. And they can't be nested. And Cygwin seems to be blissfully unaware of their existence.
No, Cygwin has a special way of handling colons in file names, so that Windows doesn't see them as colons:
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars Ken -- 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
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