Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!mcp
From: mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ":" in file names
Message-ID: <1989May11.221814.10870@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 12 May 89 02:18:13 GMT
References: <110@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Reply-To: mcp@ziebmef.UUCP (Marc Plumb)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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Make sure you specify a volume name, e.g. "df1:some/dir/the:file".
Dos always looks for the first colon and uses that as a device
name, but it's not smart enough to notice the second.

BTW, any opinions on what is The Right Thing to do with :'s in file names?
If they should be disallowed, who should check and what should be done?
--
	-Colin