From: ccurley AT wyoming DOT com (Charles Curley)
Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF ??
22 Sep 1997 16:23:52 -0700
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To: Alex <garbanzo AT hooked DOT net>
Cc: "William M. Mullins" <mullinwm AT picard DOT ml DOT wpafb DOT af DOT mil>,
        gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 11:39 PM 9/21/97 -0700, Alex wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, William M. Mullins wrote:
>
>> Sir:
>> 
>> I am running NT4SP3 and I now have a 29MB "EA DATA. SF" file on my 1.6GB
>> FAT partition that has only 358MB of data on it.  It has grown to this
>> size over the course of only 3 days (with a lot of "make all"'s and
>> "make clean"'s).  I suggest a problem my be present in cleaning up these
>> files on the system.
>
>Since you're using NT and an obsolete FAT partition, which doesn't
>suppport extended attributes, I'm guessing NT uses this file to store the
>extended attributes for files on a FAT partition.  Cygnus's tools do use
>these extended attributes a fair deal, as do other programs I'm sure, so
>this file is probably worth keeping.

It is a nice guess, but I am not sure it is correct. I just checked my
system (NT 4.0, SP1, W95 OSR0), with no ntfs partitions, and did not find a
file of that name.

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