On 10/26/04 12:34 PM, Scott Haneda deftly typed out:

> The strange thing is that Entourage is
> only cosmetically showing me the colon.  If I ssh into the EIMS server, I DO
> NOT see the colon in the filesystem, not to mention it is a invalid
> character in OS X and would not be allowed anyway.

Not that this has anything to do with your EIMS/IMAP issue, but the colon is
not an invalid character in OS X. The directory delimiter is actually a
slash now and slashes in filenames are cosmetically displayed as slashes,
though they are actually converted to colons behind the scenes.

As an example, drop into Terminal and type:

touch 'test:test'

This will create a file called "test:test" as shown by this ls output:

sh-2.05b$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 remo  staff  0 26 Oct 17:28 test:test

But if you view this file in the Finder, it'll display as "test/test".

You can repeat the test in the inverse by creating a file in the Finder
called "test/test" and you'll find that ls will report the file is called
"test:test".

You may now return to your regularly scheduled discussion... :-)

-Remo Del Bello 

-- 
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of
a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
- Dr. Seuss


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