From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Herbert,   
      
   > But only if the file name is not a single letter:   
      
   Mentioning the why of that would have been nice : a single letter followed   
   by a colon is interpreted as a drive letter.   
      
   And that means that the exception to your exception is that something like   
      
   echo hello>c:$data   
      
   works - even though not creating an alternate data stream : you just get a   
   file with the name "$data" - in whatever the current folder on C: is. :-)   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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