From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature 3 Dec 1997 04:11:48 -0800 Message-ID: <19971203040857.9644.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >From: Chris Faylor >Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 17:46:58 -0500 (EST) >To: jazz AT softway DOT com >Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature >Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > >>> Extended attributes are not an option for Windows 95, however. >> >>Didn't Sergey's Coolview extensions provide a mechanism for storing >>extended attributes on FAT filesystems and under Win95? Or am I >>misremembering things? > >Just under Windows NT, I think. > >I do remember that people using FAT on Windows NT complained because >cygwin was creating a large file to hold the extended attributes, also. >That may be another mark against using them. Yes, the file grew to be about 150M before I found out what was eating up the disk space. I removed the coolview patches on my Windows NT but now use the latest coolview on my W95. My WinNT has a FAT mount. - \\||// ---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".