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Date:	Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
To:	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>,
	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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--- Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net> wrote:
> 
> ----- 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 :[.
> 

Then the only way to get around that is to emulate hard links, instead of
actually creating a cross-linked file?

Cheers,
Nicholas

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