Re: Can't use a filename with a colon in it?

[Hans Aberg]

On 3 Aug 2009, at 10:06, Trevor Daniels wrote:

> > This is Lilypond trying to find a file called 16.ly when I asked it  
> > to
> > open a file called Jn3:16.ly
>
> I should have seen that :(  Sorry for the noise.
>
> I can't investigate further myself as Windows
> does not permit files to be saved with a colon
> in the filename.

I have verified it on Mac OS X 10.5.7. The file works fine in other  
contexts - I can open it with Xcode, for example. But:
  $ /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond  
'Jn3:16.ly'
  GNU LilyPond 2.13.1
  warning: cannot find file: `Jn3:16.ly'
  error: failed files: "Jn3:16.ly"

Mac OS used to prohibit names with ":". It now works from the console.  
They show up in the GUI (Finder) as names with "/", and vice versa,  
":" is still prohibited in the GUI, but "/" translated into ":" on the  
UNIX level.

  Hans