[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1338: Rename Carpet output files

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#1338: Rename Carpet output files
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  Reporter:  eschnett  |       Owner:  eschnett
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  major     |   Milestone:          
 Component:  Carpet    |     Version:          
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
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Comment (by rhaas):

 Beyond Windows and OSX there are also a number of Unix tools that don't
 like colons (or other "unusual" characters in file names). VisIt is
 somewhat prominent in that it will interpret a file name with a colon as a
 remote file and one has to explicitly prefix such files with "localhost
 :/<PATH-TO-FILE>/" to make it happy. Getting this to work with python
 scrips and the conn_cmfe operator can be a bit of a a headache.

 Finally (unrelated) using colon in HDF5 dataset names is a bad idea as
 well since this is not quite in line with the HDF5 docs
 (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/UG/10_Datasets.html : "A dataset name is
 a sequence of alphanumeric ASCII characters") and eg. xdmf is very unhappy
 about the colons.

 So offering a means to replace offending characters by eg "_" or "-" or ""
 would be helpful.

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