Re: descript.ion to description

Helle Michael,

It seems I am entering one of the "grey areas" of microsoft:

http://www.infosecwriters.com/texts.php?op=display&id=53

It way to complicated for me, I tought it would be a "nice to have"
feature..

Thanks anyway for your reply..

Robert.


"Michael Bednarek" <ROT13-zo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:08:57 +0200, "mavman" wrote in
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript:

loooong loong time ago I used a commandshell called 4Dos. (it still exists
by the way) One of the nice features was the use of hidden "descript.ion"
plain ascii files in wich were actually two collums, "filename" and
"description".

If performed a "dir" in a 4dos command box, the directory listing was
displayd, with description...

In explorer it is also possible to ad a description field in the list of
displayed items (if you use the "details view" it is possible to add that
collum)

My question:

Is there a way to programmatically open these descript.ion files en use
this
data to "fill in" the values in the description collum in explorer?

Any help is appreciated, googeling for "vbscript explorer description"
doesn't really help me..

Explorer uses Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to store meta data in a
stream named :%CHAR[5]SummaryInformation, the format of
which does not seem to be documented anywhere.

After you apply meta data to a file (e.g. fu.bar) with Explorer, you can
see the ADS names in 4NT (I don't think 4DOS supports ADS) with
DIR /: fu.bar

You can inspect the meta data in an ADS with:
TYPE fu.bar:%@CHAR[5]SummaryInformation
or use a hex editor.

--
Michael Bednarek http://mbednarek.com/ "POST NO BILLS"


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