Jan Prikryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting Dan Harkless ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I don't see why we would use an '_' instead of a ':' on the second version
> > (except on Windows if the ':' character is a no-no there).
>
> The colon is a relict of DOS path notation (C:\....) so it cannot
> appear in a filename.
Fine, but I'm not really up for obfuscating the URLs on UNIX just to make
DOS/Windows happy. Already the Windows port has to deal with more
characters being non-allowed in filenames than on UNIX. This is just
another one.
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