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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:15:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A few different questions. Long.
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--- Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de> wrote:
> Chris Faylor wrote:
> > >Chmod - does it work? Whenever i chmod anything it never actually
> > >changes.
> > 
> > set CYGWIN=ntea
> > 
> > will provide you with more permissions.  Watch out, though, if you use
> > this on a FAT partition it will create a large file which is not easily
> > deletable.
> 
> Apropos, how is it deletable?

For the record:  If you remove the ntea setting, as you delete, rename, move,
etc. the files that are stored in the "big file" will be removed and the size
of the "big file" reduces and will eventually become a "can live with it" size.
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>

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