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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
That's good. I once had a cross-platform program mistakenly save a file with a colon, which is illegal in Windows. I had to use a Linux boot disk to get rid of the damn thing.
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Colons are not exactly illegal in Windows/NTFS, they are used to denote alternate data streams (file forks), e.g. myfile.txt:mystream. Nirsoft's
AlternateStreamView can be used to to extract and delete them while Notepad is one of the few programs that can create/edit them.
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