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Quell
July 9th, 2007, 11:31 AM
Hey.

I was lookg at some source and and the filename fro the CreateFileW was specified as:
"pathfilea:filebnopath".
ie.
"c:\...\filea:fileb"
What exactly does the ":" do in between the file names?
Thx

wildfrog
July 9th, 2007, 11:59 AM
The : marks the start of a File Stream (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/library/aa364404.aspx).

- petter