Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- downstream branches

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:50:01AM -0500, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:41:41AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> >>I don't think ":" is a permitted file name character on Windows.
> 
> It's not -- nor are these: \ / * < > | ? "
> 
> >And it's the host delimiter on unix.
> 
> That doesn't seem to stop me from creating a file with : in it though.

Not every tool understands the notion of remote files (actually "most"
don't), presumably including the one you used to create the
file. Things like rcp/scp/rsync will be entertained by your efforts to
get them to do things with this file later.

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