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Re: NTFS alternate stream
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:37:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: NTFS alternate stream
- References: <003801c238bf$45d04020$0100a8c0@atomice.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:22:47PM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>I was pleasantly suprised to find that Cygwin supports NTFS alternate
>streams. Was this by design or accident?
You mean where you add a colon after the filename and store "extra stuff"
in it? We'd have to work not to allow that, so I guess you could say it
is by design. I'm sure that there must be some packages that don't understand
it though.
cgf
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