On 5/7/08, Pander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When using cygwin 2.573.2.2 wget on Windows XP Professional 2002 SP 2 it > is not possible for wget to write or update files with questionmark ? in > name.
? is an illegal character in the native windows filesystems. Cygwin has a feature to automatically rename illegal characters, managed mounts. See http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.case-sensitive > Also it is not possible to extracting tar files in cygwin containting the > results of wget done on a POSIX machine. This is likely the result of the tar file having an illegal filename, based on your previous comment. > If question mark is not possible to use on this file system at all, It is not. > please consider altering wget to circumvent this. Managed mounts exist to automatically do the renaming for you. See the previous link. -Richard Campbell. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
