Re: [Boost-users] Problem with installing Boost man

On Sunday 09 November 2003 12:55 am, Alex Vinokur wrote:

tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:any.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:any_cast.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: [snip] What is wrong?

The Windows file system can't store filenames with ':' in them, but having ':' is nice so that one can type man boost::function We could generate a Cygwin version that uses '_' instead of ':', if that would help, although it's a bit more ugly to type man boost__function Doug