[SLUG] Broken symlinks

[Gavin Baker]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:43, aardvark llama wrote:

> >...but some filesystems can't contain an ':' in file names, so they 
> > >changed the ':' for an '_' and the symlink is around for backwards
> >compatibility.
> Cool -- I would like to shake the hand of the man who thought this up.  Can 
> you shed a little more light on this? ufs, vxfs and ext2 can take all sorts 
> of bobbins. IIRC umsdos can too.

IIUC, no Mac (HFS(+)) or Windows (FAT...NTFS) can contain ":"'s in
filenames. (As well as slightly less popular filesystems, like the
Amiga's FFS).

Regards, 
Gav