From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 80765 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2015 15:26:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 80757 invoked by uid 89); 6 Oct 2015 15:26:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:26:21 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t96FQJsk024987 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:26:19 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t96FQITe016361 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:26:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <821262354.20151006175954@yandex.ru> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <5613E81A.8060803@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:26:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <821262354.20151006175954@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 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