[Asterisk-Users] Monitor does not like variable subsitutions

[Peter Svensson]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jim Van Meggelen wrote:

> You are using illegal characters in your file name.
> 
> See this line in your output?
> 
> > ast_writefile: No such format 'wav|rec_to_448704386865_at_16022005-16'
> 
> It can't get past it because the colon is not a valid filename
> character.

In what way is a colon not valid in a filename? It is certainly valid in 
unix.

Peter