#1338: Rename Carpet output files -----------------------+---------------------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: eschnett Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: Carpet | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
Comment (by barry.wardell):
Colons in filenames are also a very bad idea on Mac OS X. It can handle them to a certain extent, but weird things often happen, with the colon often being automatically translated to and from a slash '/' instead. This is a carryover from Mac OS's pre-UNIX days, where colon was used as a path separator but '/' was allowed in a filename. For example, if you use ls from a terminal you will see the correct filename, e.g. 'carpet::timing..asc' but if you look at the same file in Finder it will appear as 'carpet//timing..asc'. If you try to rename the file in Finder, it gives an error if you put in any colons. You can put in slashes, but they are automatically converted to colons (and shown as slashes in the GUI).