It was a rehtorical question, Doc - wondering if anyone else has any "non-devious" ideas. I have some, but having played with it from Kix for the first time, there's some limitations. The biggest is not being able to delete the AFS stream without removing the base file, although I suppose you could zero it out via redirection.

I've had enough issues with this type of technology, and the related SFM with macintosh users. I can't tell you how many times they emailed the fork instead of the file, since it is exposed on the mac when connecting to a Windows/SMB server. Mac's use it to hold file identification data instead of using file extensions and associations.

Glenn
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