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From: | John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | RE: Cygwin: Interoperability Is Important (was Cygwin: Open or Cl |
osed System, etc) | |
Date: | Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:30:32 -0400 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au] > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:31 AM > To: Fred T. Hamster; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: RE: Cygwin: Interoperability Is Important (was > Cygwin: Open or > Closed System, etc) > > > current directory on drive a. i can't claim that with > certainty now, > > considering your mention of NTFS streams. i've not > encountered that > > usage you're describing yet. is that accessible in command prompts? > > $ echo "c" > "foo" > $ echo "a" > "foo:1" > $ echo "b" > "foo:2" Never heard of these "NTFS streams" before. Wow! Unbelievable! Ugh! A new way to hide data, even better than dot files. $ echo c >foo $ echo abcde >foo:1 $ ls -l foo* -rw-r--r-- 1 jrw JRW 2 Jun 27 12:21 foo <= note: only 2 bytes $ cat foo:1 abcde $ cp foo bar $ cat bar c $ cat bar:1 cat: bar:1: No such file or directory (Using Windows Explorer to copy foo to bar does also copy all streams, so that bar:1 can be read) -- John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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