in the purest sense
- in the finest tradition of the forum
I think, gc, that BF was giving my 'CAN read NTFS' a minor lashing there? I was merely joining in with my 'pedant's whip' after Mac started the punishment.

Seemed like fun.
There are other progs around too, including
http://www.mount-everything.com/ntfsw/ which claims to read and write.