From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergey Okhapkin To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Michael Hirmke'" Subject: RE: EA DATA. SF ?? Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 01:11:00 -0000 Message-id: <01BCC03E.5598E4C0@sos> X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00251.html Michael Hirmke wrote: > don't know, when it started, but whenever I copy a file to a floppy > disk, cp (or whoever) creates a file named "EA DATA. SF" on the floppy. > Afterwards it also copies the desired file to the floppy. > > The file cannot be deleted, no matter what I try. > > Does anyone know, why this file is created ? You took the cygwin.dll from my web page? File EA DATA. SF used by NT on fat partitions to store file's extended attributes (the same way like in OS/2). EAs used by cygwin.dll to store file's unix attributes (rwxrwxrwx). -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".