Re: EA DATA.SF file on NT

[mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)]

Hi Jack,

>You'll have 450 megs of additional free space?  Afaik "ea data.sf" is just
>an  OS/2 extended attribute file.  If you don't have OS/2 anywhere perhaps
>it was left over from an old OS/2 install. I am using NT4 WS with ntfs and
>a search of my entire hd turned up no occurances of that file.

This doesn't have anything to do with OS/2 in connection with Cygwin.
If one uses Sergey's coolview DLL and sets CYGWIN=ntea, such a file will
be created to store the extended attributes on FAT partitions.

>
>Jack

Bye.
Michael.
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