RE: How to hide a file ?

From: Farahbakhshian, Mike (OD) (FarahbaM@OD.NIH.GOV)
Date: 01/10/02


From: "Farahbakhshian, Mike (OD)" <FarahbaM@OD.NIH.GOV>
To: 'H C' <keydet89@yahoo.com>, "Young, Brandon" <Brandon.Young@Honeywell.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:18:38 -0500

You wrote:

> Yes. If the file created on NTFS w/ ADSs touches a
> non-NTFS file system, the ADSs are not carried over.

Wouldn't HFS+ take an ADS over, if the ADS was structured as an HFS+
resource fork? That was the original motivation behind ADS, after all...

Copying a file with ADS to an HFS+ volume (if Services for Macintosh is
enabled) might preseve the ADS. Unfortunately, I don't have an HFS volume to
test.

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Mike Farahbakhshian
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