In which case I think it is fine to have functions extension() and change_extension() - they just should not report or modify the stream part.
To implement them I guess I'd need to know whether the file name was an NTFS filename, and then how to reliably locate the "extension" part?
Just my 2 cents...
Trevor
Edouard Poor wrote:
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 00:59, Neal D. Becker wrote:
Slightly OT, but can anyone give me a hint what these alternate
streams are
intended for? Is this an attempt to recommit something like the apple data/resource fork?
It allowed them to support running an Apple Share server from an NT box way back in the day with very little effort.
With XP, Microsoft has started to put data in there in a more Apple style -- for example the meta data about MP3s is stored in an alternate stream I believe. I suspect you'll see more of that in future OS's from MS.
There once was a time when people thought it would be a Good Thing
(tm) to get
their OS to recognize different properties of files. Thus, VMS was
created.
In some theoretical sense, it probably was good.
In an actual sense it great under the early Mac OS's. A lot of the normal tedious work about having structured data associated with files and programs simply didn't exist.
Cheers, Edouard.
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