On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:17:25AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
> >Seems to me that at least NTFS supports a similar concept:
> >
> >Every file has a default (unnamed) stream, but you can create
> >alternate (named) streams on a file easily:
>
> I was under the impression that this feature is not used in any
> important apps
> these days. It was for Cairo that never happened and of course using
> a windows
> file server to host Mac files.
>
It's used for a couple of things: storing the 'Summary' properties tab
information (Title, etc) for non-Office applications, and some security
zone thing whereby it warns you if you run a file you downloaded from
the internet. It might also be used more in Vista - I know the Samba
guys seemed quite keen on getting some kind of support for this on Linux.
Regards,
Malcolm
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Received on Fri Sep 22 11:49:15 2006