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Re: EA DATA. SF in B19?




>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:57:36 -0700
>From: "justin." <suicide@freakz.org>
>To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com>
>CC: mh@mike.franken.de, gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF in B19?
>
>
>
>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.
>> >--
>> >Michael Hirmke           | Telefon +49 (911) 557999
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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
>

It may be O B S  O L E T E   but it is far from  E X T I N C T   and I 
have no choice on which I get to use.


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