Michael Wechner wrote:

why would you want to use a colon in a filename when : is a reserved character on windows?

for instance to indicate/differentiate special files (just as for instance SVN uses .svn as dir name ...).


If it's really a reserved character shouldn't Java then throw an exception?!

again, you really don't want to use it:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html#pathSeparatorChar

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