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Re: Strange file !!!!!!
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Strange file !!!!!!
- From: Factory <factory at labyrinth dot net dot au>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:25:26 +1000
At 04:34 27/04/98 -0700, you wrote:
>---hpoulard@actia.fr wrote:
>> 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.
Erm incidentally OS/2 also uses a similar file of similar properties, and
if the format is compatable with the os2 one, this file can store things
like mime datatypes, icons, extended filenames and other similar things for
all the files on the drive that it appears in.
- Factory (.sig under reconstruction)
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