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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ":" in file names
Message-ID: <112@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 89 15:07:27 GMT
References: <110@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <654@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <654@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
->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".

Your quote from the AmigaDOS manual also suggests that it should work within
double quotes without having to use the asterisk.  But I can tell you that
it DOES NOT work.



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