[tlbuild] A problem with rsync

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Mon May 11 10:14:12 CEST 2009


On 11/05/2009, Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi at alice.it> wrote:
> Ken Brown ha scritto:
>> It works in cygwin-1.7:
>
> I suspected it, but Windows users should have problems in any case with
> '::' in file/dir names. Or not?

Spaces in names already cause a lot of grief, but using colons is
really asking for troubles. I don't know how cygwin does it, because
on Windows colon is one of the forbidden chars in file names (together
with = | < > / \ "), but this is definitely not a good idea.

Cheers,

Tomek


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