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Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 20:08:57 PST
>From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com>
>Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 17:46:58 -0500 (EST)
>To: jazz@softway.com
>Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
>Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>
>>> Extended attributes are not an option for Windows 95, however.
>>
>>Didn't Sergey's Coolview extensions provide a mechanism for storing
>>extended attributes on FAT filesystems and under Win95? Or am I
>>misremembering things?
>
>Just under Windows NT, I think.
>
>I do remember that people using FAT on Windows NT complained because
>cygwin was creating a large file to hold the extended attributes, also.
>That may be another mark against using them.
Yes, the file grew to be about 150M before I found out what was eating
up the disk space. I removed the coolview patches on my Windows NT but
now use the latest coolview on my W95. My WinNT has a FAT mount.
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