NTFS alternate data streams

Question

Today I have seen this weird magic NTFS system supports: each file can have multiple data streams. Basically one could have a file a.txt of 0b size but there ca

Answer 1

The Win32 API handles the naming of alternate streams just fine.

CMD, on the other hand, does some funky parsing of the file name when it's possible to have */? expansion and barfs when a ":" is present. That's why copy and type fail but simple redirection works.