Re: EA DATA. SF in B19?

["justin." <suicide at freakz dot org>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:

> >Date: 24 Sep 1997 18:12:00 +0200
> >From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke)
> >To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> >Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF in B19?
> >
> >Hi Earnie,
> >
> >>Is it planned to use Sergey's contribution of extended attributes in
> the
> >>B19 release??
> >>
> >>If so, there needs to be a way to turn it off especially in the
> >>situation of a FAT directory.  As a matter of fact in the case of the
> >
> >Uhm, it only happens with a FAT filesystem :)
> >
> >>FAT directory the default should be off and an environment variable
> used
> >>to turn it on.
> >
> >Bye.
> >Michael.
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> According to the answer I received from Sergey.  His comment to me was
> to not use the FAT directory.  I have since returned to the original B18
> cygwin.dll and the file in question has gone from 144meg to 16meg in
> just two days.
>

    And since i switched to NTFS it has shrunk from 0 bytes to 0 bytes in
just minutes!
    F A T - I S - O B S  O L E T E

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