From:	earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: EA DATA. SF ??
22 Sep 1997 12:03:24 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<19970922184902.27439.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To:	garbanzo AT hooked DOT net, mullinwm AT picard DOT ml DOT wpafb DOT af DOT mil
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

>Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:39:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Alex <garbanzo AT hooked DOT net>
>To: "William M. Mullins" <mullinwm AT picard DOT ml DOT wpafb DOT af DOT mil>
>cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF ??
>
>
>
>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.
>
>- alex
>
>
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In what directory does EA DATA. SF get created.  I haven't been able to 
find it.

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