From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF in B19? 26 Sep 1997 06:45:40 -0700 Message-ID: <19970926131013.5520.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com, suicide AT freakz DOT org Cc: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:57:36 -0700 >From: "justin." >To: Earnie Boyd >CC: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF in B19? > > > >Earnie Boyd wrote: > >> >Date: 24 Sep 1997 18:12:00 +0200 >> >From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) >> >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT 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 AT mike DOT franken DOT de >> > | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ >> >- >> >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message >> to >> >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT 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 > It may be O B S O L E T E but it is far from E X T I N C T and I have no choice on which I get to use. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".