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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Andrew Arensburger <arensb@Glue.umd.edu> writes:
> |> 	Summary: Emacs refuses to read files in "/:".
> |> 
> 
> Have you tried using "/:/:/a/b/c" for the name?

	Update: this works for individual files, but breaks magic. For
instance, "M-x find-file /:/:/a/b/*" creates a buffer called "*",
rather than opening all of the files in /:/a/b.

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