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Who puts colons into their filenames? Oh, short-sighted people like the designers of OBS (OpenSUSE Build System) who introduced a colon convention into project names.

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2008-12/msg0...

This causes a problem even in the POSIX environment, because the colon is used in PATH and PATH-like environment variables. Usually there is no escape mechanism.



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