Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully

Hicks,Mike Mike_Hicks@securecomputing.com
Tue May 23 21:01:00 GMT 2006


Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> You're in luck: "PAGER='less +/managed' man mount".
> Once you have the files on a managed mount, you might also want to look
> into using the "cygstart" utility.

Ah, I neglected to mention that I still use Winamp to play my music, so
having directories that look (to Windows apps) like a mangled URL string
(er, what was "C:\Download\My Music\%4Co %46idelity %41llstars" again?)
isn't quite what I'm looking for.  Thanks for the idea though.

-- 
Mike Hicks [mhicks@securecomputing.com]
Associate Test Engineer
Secure Computing, St. Paul, MN

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