From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: EGCS Win32 gcc compiler wanted
24 Apr 1998 09:44:06 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BD6F82.E5F25EE0.cygnus.gnu-win32@drs>
To:	Gorton Zhao Guo Wei <gwzhao AT multiwave DOT com DOT sg>,
	"'Mumit Khan'"
	<khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
Cc:	"gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Mumit Khan wrote:
> Bet you're using FAT filesystem on NT, right? If so, you're running into
> the same old "EA SF" slowdown problem which IMO renders cygwin32 b19.x
> useless for any real work. I believe Geoffrey has stated that he will
> provide an option to not use extended attributes on NT/FAT, but I haven't 

Latest cygwinb19.dll (available on my web page) have EA usage disabled by 
default. To turn EA feature on, add "ntea" to your CYGWIN32 env var.

--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia.

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