I have played with these streams before. A good tool and reading on
how to manipulate these streams can be found at System Internals site
(http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#streams). Tony, tell me
if this helps you at all.

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Well, I can't give you the answer, but I think I can point you in the right
direction.

I had an idea that perhaps this information is stored as an alternate Data
Stream.  I capitalized that because it's a special concept in NTFS.  Anyway,
I ran a script called "streams.pl" (from David Roth's book, "Win32 Perl
Scripting") on a test file where I had modified the "Title" property and
sure enough, I found a stream called "?SummaryInformation".  Note the
special character in the beginning.  I have no idea how to access this
stream.  I tried running another script from Roth's book called
"streamdump.pl" using that exact name, but I got an error.

Anyway, my advice would be to do some searching on Microsoft's TechNet on
the subject of "streams" and "SummaryInformation".  Or maybe something like
+"file streams" +"SummaryInformation" on Google.

Good luck, and post back if you find anything.

P.S.  No - I didn't find anything useful in Win32, Win32API::File,
Win32::AdminMisc, nor Win32::NetAdmin.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 2:49 PM
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> Subject: Setting extended File Properties
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any examples of or know how to change the extended
> properties of a file (Comment, Title, Subject, Keywords, 
> etc.) from within
> Perl?
> 
> Have been looking at Win32::OLE, but I have not been able to 
> view or change
> these extended properties.
> 
> Thank you,
> Tom
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