From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygpath (reprised)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91004342-5af0-a67b-5aab-b73739a538d5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <673311627.20170301161204@yandex.ru>
On 3/1/2017 8:12 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, cyg Simple!
>
>> On 2/25/2017 8:13 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> Greetings, cyg Simple!
>>>
>>>> Also a : isn't a valid character for a name in Windows. Cygwin uses
>>>> some magic to represent it in UNICODE format though.
>>>
>>> It isn't a valid file "name" character, yes, but it is still a meaningful
>>> character in pathname under windows.
>>> Just the meaning of it is far from regular file name semantics.
>>>
>
>> Not when specifying ./a:b which was the example being discussed.
>
> We were discussing "a:b", not "./a:b".
Then you need to re-read the elided content. An example of ./a:b was
given and what I responded to.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-01 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-21 17:22 Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-21 18:05 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-21 18:22 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-25 16:38 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-26 1:20 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-28 19:56 ` cyg Simple
2017-03-01 13:20 ` Andrey Repin
2017-03-01 14:33 ` cyg Simple [this message]
2017-02-27 14:03 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-28 20:15 ` cyg Simple
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