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From: deven@rpi.edu (Deven Corzine)
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Subject: Re: ":" in file names
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Date: 17 May 89 16:47:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: mcp@ziebmef.uucp's message of 12 May 89 02:18:13 GMT

In article <1989May11.221814.10870@ziebmef.uucp> mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb) writes:

   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.

"not smart enough"?  I'd say that's the proper behavior.

   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?

Certainly.  Allow colons in filenames.  So you just have to specify a
full pathname is all.  Besides, disallowing colons in filenames would
make it difficult for such devices as PATH:...

Deven
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