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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 00:49:10 EDT
Subject: Re: FAT or NTFS ?
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In a message dated 7/1/99 2:56:01 PM PST, kevinb@acceleratednetworks.com 
writes:

> I'm running NT with a FAT C drive and
>  CYGWIN=NTEA and I was wondering if I would have more
>  success with either not setting NTEA or moving Cygwin
>  to a NTFS partition.
My experience favors strongly the installation of cygwin on NTFS.  On NT4, 
the FAT file system isn't as troublesome as FAT32 is on NT5, but it is 
extremely slow.

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