stvs wrote: > As a wine design question, is it reasonable for wine to have a flag that allows it to escape certain special characters and handle a greater subset of BSD names, except in the obviously clashing cases like backslash '\' and colon ':'? No, it's not reasonable. Wine implements win32 api, which has specific requirements for file names. BTW Wine does allow colon ":" in file names, which on Windows represents a NTFS file stream.