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Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
- To: jazz at softway dot com
- Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at bbc dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 17:46:58 -0500 (EST)
- 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.
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