Windows file problem

[poepping () LOGICAL CM NU]

        I don't know if this is a hole, or the file is going somewhere
else, but here is what I found.

create a directory i.e c:\tempfolder

go into the folder and type dir (its empty)

now type  echo junk >> :myfile

type dir again (its still empty)

now find a copy of vi.exe for windows (its all I can find that can read
and write these files)  once you get vi.exe  type vi :myfile  and presto
it loads the file, with the conent of "junk" you wrote to it.

next type start .  and you can see that windows explorer can't see it.

and if you try to delete the file it doesn't work.

So if someone wanted to, they could log onto a server/workstation and
create a file that fills up the harddrive (assuming that it takes up
space, haven't tried), And no one would see it, or be able to delete it.


Am I mising something? or is this just a flaw in windows (tested on
windows nt 4.0 doesn't seem to work on windows 98, but need to try
creating the file with vi.exe)



thanks,
matt
poepping () ksni net