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Re: EA DATA. SF in B19?
- To: earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com, suicide at freakz dot org
- Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF in B19?
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 06:10:12 PDT
- Cc: mh at mike dot franken dot de, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
>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
>> >Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664
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>> > | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/
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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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