On 10/6/2015 10:59 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
I'm more puzzled by the file name, though. While colons are allowed in Windows file names, they bear special meaning of referencing streams within a file. And they can't be nested. And Cygwin seems to be blissfully unaware of their existence.
No, Cygwin has a special way of handling colons in file names, so that Windows doesn't see them as colons:
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