home dir on vfat

[Kevin Krammer]

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On Monday, 30. September 2002 18:56, Stefano Lodi wrote:
> My home directory resides in a vfat filesystem.  I am unable to
> run dcopserver.  I believe the reason is that the vfat fs
> considers ':' illegal in file names.  Therefore the file
> .DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain_:0 cannot be created.

I think so too.
Really bad idea (TM) to use vfat as a filesystem on a Unix system IMHO.

> (BTW how was  the problem dealt with in Windows systems?)

You could ask the guys at kde-cygwin.sf.net how they did it.

Cheers,
kevin

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