Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!snll-arpagw!paolucci From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ":" in file names Message-ID: <111@snll-arpagw.UUCP> Date: 4 May 89 14:59:58 GMT References: <110@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <5160032@hplsla.HP.COM> <14617@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA Lines: 15 In article <14617@louie.udel.EDU> new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes: ->What *I* want to know is how you got a file name with a colon in ->it on the disk in the first place? -- Darren You see, when you use NFS, you can access files that have been created by the server. I have a program that runs on my MicroVAX server that insists on creating files with the date and time in the file name. I have to then work with these files on the Amiga ... -- -+= SAM =+- "the best things in life are free" ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov