"Trevor Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > So it sounds to me like the :blat is *not* part of the extension. It > sounds like the NT file name is made up of three parts: name, extension > and "stream". > > 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? > Functin DeviceIoControl() with parameter IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO can do it. It is available on NT/W2K.
Does it make sense to take into account NTFS drives for Win95/98 (from www.systeminternals.com) or Linux NTFS drivers? /Pavel _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
