Have you tried escaping them? Don't know if it might work.
scp log_20001030-08\:41\:23 rickw@bini/home/rickw
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Howard.
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Any idea on how to specify a source file as used in an
> scp or rcp command, where the source filename contains
> a colon?
>
> Here is an example that fails:
>
> [rickw] scp log_20001030-08:41:23 rickw@bini/home/rickw
>
> Bad host name: log_20001030-08
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