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From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>,
   "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:22:25 +1000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms@yahoo.com>
 >>I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system; 
> >>gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on NTFS.
> > Why not?  I'm sure there has to be a way to get around this limitation?
> Sure -- figure out a way to implement hardlinks on FAT.

It's called cross linked files... and checkdisk will 'fix' it :[.

Rob


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