Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:11:20 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files Message-ID: <20030605151120.GW875@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3EDF5B14.6090908@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EDF5B14.6090908@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:00:36AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >>>Does it work with ext2- or ext3-driven volume, or even a more traditional > >>>unix FS ? > >> > >>*More* traditional than ext[23]? Why do you want to compare an *old* > >>FS with a *new* FS as NTFS is? That's like comparing a Ford Model A > >>with a modern Ford Taurus. What is that good for? > > > > > >gcc still supports PDP-11's. rxvt emulates what, the VT-102, from like the > >Paleozoic era. Old and crusty is the Unix way of life for some reason. > > > Ahem! Don't forget the old and crusty ways in Windows/DOS! > > Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;-) That's perfectly fine but these are not the criteria typically linked to "progress". Remember, without people wanting some sort of progress we'd still have no TVs. Without TV, no commercial, no soap opera... well... uhm... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/