-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 January 2004 15:48, Wade Hampton wrote: > When I try to write to a Win2K box, it will not let me write these > files. If I replace the ":" with a "-" it will let me write the files. > Any help would be most appreciated. : is a reserved character in the Windows world.. like A: C: ... If its possible, use tr on your filenames: tr ':' '-' will do your earlier edit. For example echo mylogfile-12:21:32.txt | tr ':' '-' should yield mylogfile-12:21-32.txt - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAYSrjKeDCxMJCTIRAjbbAKCDUoXsw/EvWzpLnSl5up0PRJNRxQCgkfh3 ExCFl6+Dui1qJcEvXyJo4GM= =xN2j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----