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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ":" in file names
Message-ID: <5160032@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 3 May 89 16:38:22 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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> How can one copy or rename a file that has a ":" or more in the file
> name?  I tried putting the name in double quotes, but I still get
> a requester to mount a volume.
> -- 
> 					-+= SAM =+-

You might try using a wildcard in the copy:  call abc:def abc?def.
Of course this doesn't work quite like you want if there's another
file that looks too close to the one you want to copy.  I don't
think this will work with rename, and am not positive about the
copy, but I used it once to copy a file named "*".  You might be
able to rename it by going into the disk with a disk editor.