From: suicide@freakz.org (justin.) Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF in B19? 25 Sep 1997 17:39:32 -0700 Message-ID: <342AFA6E.B1294854.cygnus.gnu-win32@freakz.org> References: <19970925033311.21003.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Earnie Boyd Cc: mh@mike.franken.de, gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 > >90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh@mike.franken.de > > | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ > >- > >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message > to > >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > > > > 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 -~ suicide@freakz.org ~ god disapeared in a puff of logic ~- - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".