From: Carl Daniel (cpdaniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-19 23:55:50


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?

According to the NT Internals books I've read, alternate streams were
implemented in NTFS specifically to support Apple clients on NT-based file
servers.

-cd