Command-line parsing bug?

[Michal Pasternak]

Tjavdar Ivanov [Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:43:30PM +0200]:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There seems to be no way to scp a file containig ":" in its name, e.g.,
> 
>   scp file-with-colon-in-its-name:   user at localhost:

Try:

    scp ./file-with-colon-in-its-name:   user at localhost:
    
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