<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#cccccc" text="#000099">
The problem is not the directory, but rather the file name:<br>
1145574924.P25062Q0M483195.bigoak.quickdispense.com:2,S<br>
There is a colon between the com and the 2. Colons are a reserved
character in the DOS world. Yes....I thought about encapsulating
(gzip) but was looking for a more elegant solution.<br>
<br>
Brad<br>
<br>
<br>
Jan Kundrát wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid444931B3.5000003@gentoo.org" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Brad Bateman wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Since the colon is used in Maildir file names and is illegal in
Samba/Windows, is there any way to substitute that character for
another? I use Samba to do a nightly backup and cannot use NFS.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
Why do you think that you can't have a file named ".foo.bar" on win32
systems?
Anyway, what about making an archive (tar, zip,...)?
Cheers,
-jkt
</pre>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>