NTFS alternate stream

[Christopher Faylor]

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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