From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF ?? 22 Sep 1997 12:03:24 -0700 Message-ID: <19970922184902.27439.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: garbanzo AT hooked DOT net, mullinwm AT picard DOT ml DOT wpafb DOT af DOT mil Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:39:29 -0700 (PDT) >From: Alex >To: "William M. Mullins" >cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF ?? > > > >On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, William M. Mullins wrote: > >> Sir: >> >> I am running NT4SP3 and I now have a 29MB "EA DATA. SF" file on my 1.6GB >> FAT partition that has only 358MB of data on it. It has grown to this >> size over the course of only 3 days (with a lot of "make all"'s and >> "make clean"'s). I suggest a problem my be present in cleaning up these >> files on the system. > >Since you're using NT and an obsolete FAT partition, which doesn't >suppport extended attributes, I'm guessing NT uses this file to store the >extended attributes for files on a FAT partition. Cygnus's tools do use >these extended attributes a fair deal, as do other programs I'm sure, so >this file is probably worth keeping. > >- alex > > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > In what directory does EA DATA. SF get created. I haven't been able to find it. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".