From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Strange file !!!!!! 27 Apr 1998 18:26:57 -0700 Message-ID: <19980427113444.25123.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1c.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: hpoulard AT actia DOT fr, Non Receipt Notification Requested ---hpoulard AT actia DOT fr wrote: > > > *********************************************************** > > Hi all, > > for a while am using cygnus win32 gcc, > a strange file named : Ea data. sf > (yes yes with 2 spaces !) > > What is this strange file ?? This only happens on WinNT FAT. This is an "Extended Attributes" system file. Geoffrey Noer has stated that 19.2 will have the option of turning the use of this file on or off with the default be off. I don't know the scheduling of when to expect it. There is no method to get rid of this file as yet. To help control the size of this file, use the file explorer/manager to delete the files. I have NT FAT also and I've noticed that the more you create/delete the bigger it gets. I've also noticed that using the Win32 means of deletion instead of "rm" shrinks the file. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) ftp://ftp.hksys.com/pub/mirrors/EGCS-Win32/ (Jeremy Bettis - mirror) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/ (German mirror) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information found therein. -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------ You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package: Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1 update from the Cygnus Site). Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if your using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that comes with the tools have lots of problems that have been fixed with the EGCS version. This is a drop-in replacement for the GCC toolset. URL's are listed above. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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".