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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To:	"Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>,
	"Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:22:25 +1000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
To: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
 >>I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system; 
> >>gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on NTFS.
> > Why not?  I'm sure there has to be a way to get around this limitation?
> Sure -- figure out a way to implement hardlinks on FAT.

It's called cross linked files... and checkdisk will 'fix' it :[.

Rob


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