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At 03:02 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote: >Replying to myself -- bad habits die hard... Just to dot all the "i"s and >cross all the "t"s. > >One thing I forgot to mention is how to handle link counts. Those could >be stored in, for example, the NTEA attributes file for the original (or >the corresponding special) filename. I don't see anything wrong with >requiring NTEA on FAT in order to have hard links, BTW. > Igor Except for the fact that using NTEA requires NT and NTEA causes a quickly growing file to expand in the root directory of the FAT drive. The latter is what made the "ntea" option in the CYGWIN environment variable troublesome from day one. The former calls into question the overall value, since it excludes support for the very systems (9x/Me) on which there is no other option. Other than these two points, NTEA is great! ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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