anyone used Rev to write Windows file comments or other metadata?

[Bernard Devlin]

Phil,

I believe this information is held in a file's Advanced Data Stream.   
If this is the case, then I think only files that are on an NTFS  
partition will have these kind of comment fields available in Explorer.

ADS are weird beasties.  You could try the examples shown on this  
page, and see if you can add comments to the file using the shell()  
function:

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/Streams.html

If I remember rightly, there can be issues with ADS not being backed- 
up/restored properly with some backup utilities, and not surviving  
other kinds of file-transer (e.g. FTP, storage of files on non-MS SMB  
file servers), although that may not be an issue in your situation.

Bernard

> I've had a look in the registry and can't see the comment etc. there,
> so I'm assuming it must be stored in some other structure. Has anyone
> tried to modify or create a file's comment using Rev, or know where  
> the
> information is stored and have any idea how to access it?