From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: EA DATA. SF ?? 13 Sep 1997 01:49:48 -0700 Message-ID: <01BCC03E.5598E4C0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Michael Hirmke'" 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). -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".