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RE: EA DATA. SF ??
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Michael Hirmke'" <mh at mike dot franken dot de>
- Subject: RE: EA DATA. SF ??
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 12:12:40 +0400
Michael Hirmke wrote:
> don't know, when it started, but whenever I copy a file to a floppy
> disk, cp (or whoever) creates a file named "EA DATA. SF" on the floppy.
> Afterwards it also copies the desired file to the floppy.
>
> The file cannot be deleted, no matter what I try.
>
> Does anyone know, why this file is created ?
You took the cygwin.dll from my web page? File EA DATA. SF used by NT on
fat partitions to store file's extended attributes (the same way like in
OS/2). EAs used by cygwin.dll to store file's unix attributes (rwxrwxrwx).
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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