From:	khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject:	Extended attributes [Re: Fixes to last snapshot]
22 Mar 1998 14:04:34 -0800 :
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On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Geoffrey Noer wrote:

> 
> I'm starting to think that perhaps use of the extended attributes
> should be off by default.  The files that get created are huge and
> there isn't any way that I know of to trim them down to a minimum
> size.  :-(
> 

Just to add a data point that illustrates the problem -- I have a NT 4.0
SP3 FAT machine with 128M of RAM, but I can't even run dlltool to produce
the export library for tcl/tk/kernel32 etc. I usually kill it after a
few hours. The problem might very well be the fact that my EA SF is
about 150M, but even if I use another partition with about 15M EA SF,
the problem remains. 

Mumit

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