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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ":" in file names
Message-ID: <654@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 89 03:49:33 GMT
References: <110@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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From article <110@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, by paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci):
> How can one copy or rename a file that has a ":" or more in the file
> name?  

From the AmigaDOS User's Manual:

     The filing system allows filenames to have up to thirty charaters,
     where the characters may be any printing character except slach (/)
     and colon(:).  This means that you can include space( ), equals (=),
     plus (+), and double quote ("), all special characters recognized by
     the CLI, within a filename.  However, if you use these special
     characters, you must enclose the entire filenmae with double quotes.
     To introduce a double quote character within a filename, youmust type
     an asterisk (*) immediately before that character.  In addition, to
     introduce an asterisk, you must type another asterisk.  

That suggests you might try "file*:withcolon".

--Fabbian Dufoe
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  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
  813-823-2350

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