[wplug] cp Maildir to new machine

[Robert E. Coutch]

I'm pretty sure that : and , are illegal characters in a vfat file system.

On Monday 03 January 2005 01:05 pm, Scott F. Kiesling wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:48:22PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> > Can you give a little more detail on what is going wrong?
> >
> > I use tar and cp to manipulate (and back up) my Maildir all the
> > time.  I just tested it and all files were copied.
> >
> > cp -Rp /path/to/Maildir /tmp/.
> >
> > Worked fine.
>
> It works for me to issue the same commands. Perhaps the
> issue is that the drive I am trying to write to is vfat?
>
> Here's the error:
>
> cp: cannot create regular file '/path/file:2,RS': Invalid
> argument
>
> SFK
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