dump and :

[Lowell Gilbert]

bla at dayab.ch writes:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:20:32AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > bla at dayab.ch writes:

> > I haven't tried this, but from looking at the man page, I might expect 
> > 
> > dump -f /path/to/dump/dir/some\:file
> > 
> > to work...
> 
> Sorry no, this way the colon is just escaped in the shell.

True; I was just being careful there.
I was hoping that the colon might be ignored if a slash had come
first, on the theory that a slash would be illegal in the remote
syntax anyway.

It wouldn't be terribly hard to put such a check in; is it worth 
the effort?