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Re: Completely OT: client with Maildir support



* Bruno Postle <bruno@xxxxxxxxxx> [2003-10-02 10:17:06 +0100]:

> On Thu 02-Oct-2003 at 09:06:31AM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote:
>
> > | D:\home\davep\x> echo. > "foo;bar"
> 
> Try it with a ":", there are no semi-colons in a Maildir filename. 

I was commenting on the use of semi-colons, not the format of Maildir
filenames. Colons would be interesting on an NTFS filesystem in that they're
used to specify streams:

,----[ Same environment as previous example ]
| D:\home\davep\x> dir
|  2/10/2003   5:10p        <DIR>    .
|  2/10/2003   5:10p        <DIR>    ..
| 
| D:\home\davep\x> echo Hello > foo.txt
| 
| D:\home\davep\x> echo World > foo.txt:1
| 
| D:\home\davep\x> dir
| 
|  Volume in drive D is Drive-D        Serial number is CCB1:A09A
|  Directory of  D:\home\davep\x\*
| 
|  2/10/2003   5:10p        <DIR>    .
|  2/10/2003   5:10p        <DIR>    ..
|  2/10/2003   5:10p              7  foo.txt
|               7 bytes in 1 file and 2 dirs    4,096 bytes allocated
|  74,421,256,192 bytes free
| 
| D:\home\davep\x> type foo.txt
| Hello
| 
| D:\home\davep\x> type foo.txt:1
| World
`----

IIRC they're invalid as part of a directory name.

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