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Re: Seems like treatment of NTFS ADS (foo:bar) changed between 1.5 and 1.7 but not mentioned in What's Changed


Thomas Wolff wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
...
Or, just for kicks, try to create a file "abc:def:ghi" under 1.5 or,
FWIW, under CMD.
Well, I wanted to withdraw my arguments when I read this but then I simply tried in 1.5 and it worked quite well...
Where I visually mistook the second ":" for a "." however... (blush).
Anyway, maybe some syntax could be found that would not be too harmful to become "reserved" for this purpose...
<end:of:rationale:for:weird:feature>
Thomas


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