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