From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: EA DATA. SF ??
13 Sep 1997 01:49:48 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BCC03E.5598E4C0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To:	"gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"'Michael Hirmke'"
	<mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de>

Michael Hirmke wrote:
> don't know, when it started, but whenever I copy a file to a floppy
> disk, cp (or whoever) creates a file named "EA DATA. SF" on the floppy.
> Afterwards it also copies the desired file to the floppy.
>
> The file cannot be deleted, no matter what I try.
>
> Does anyone know, why this file is created ?

You took the cygwin.dll from my web page? File EA DATA. SF used by NT on 
fat partitions to store file's extended attributes (the same way like in 
OS/2). EAs used by cygwin.dll to store file's unix attributes (rwxrwxrwx).

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