Declined @INIREAD/@INIWRITE with Alternate Data Streams

[Joe Caverly]

Joe

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TCC  27.00.18 x64   Windows 10 [Version 10.0.19042.746]

When I want access to the Zone.Identifier in a file, I can;

e:\downloads>type CPUSTRES.zip:Zone.Identifier
[ZoneTransfer]
ZoneId=3
ReferrerUrl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720043437/http://download.sysinternals.com/files/CPUSTRES.zip
HostUrl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720043437if_/http://download.sysinternals.com/files/CPUSTRES.zip

I can then export that to an .INI file;

e:\downloads>type CPUSTRES.zip:Zone.Identifier > r:\test.ini

Next, I use @INIREAD to extract info from the .INI file;

e:\downloads>echo %@iniread[r:\test.ini,ZoneTransfer,ZoneId]
3

I would like to eliminate the export of the Zone.Identifier to an .INI file, and treat the Zone.Identifier as the .INI file, but info is not returned;

e:\downloads>echo %@iniread[CPUSTRES.zip:Zone.Identifier,ZoneTransfer,ZoneId]
ECHO is OFF

I may be wrong, but it would seem that the @INIREAD function does not have the ability to read an ADS stream.

I am presently using the @INIVALUE function from @Charles Dye's TextUtils Plugin, but it would be great for @INIREAD to also have this ability.

Would you please give @INIREAD the ability to read from an ADS stream.

Joe

 

[rconn]

The Windows APIs used by @INIREAD & @INIWRITE do not support streams.