Strange behavior with filenames

[Gene Spafford]

Here's a good one for you.  I'd like to know if anyone else has
encountered this one before -- it might save me from bashing my head
against the keyboard some.

We're running 4.2 BSD (the BRL version) on all our Vaxen.  If I create
a file whose name begins with a ":" and then try to "cat" it, it works
on the 780 but gives a "file: Error 0" message on the 750.  This also
happens on another site's 750 (in fact, it was discovered there --
credit to tas at dcc1).

Does this happen to anyone else out there?  Is this a well known and
beloved bug?  Am I hallucinating again? Anyone know a fix?
-- 
Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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