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- From: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close)
- Subject: Re: Forbidding extended attributes on FAT drive?
- Message-ID: <nsh4u8c@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Originator: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
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- Reply-To: pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
- References: <250@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de> <1992Jul23.190910.6268@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:57:16 GMT
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- David Charlap (dic5340@hertz.njit.edu) writes:
- >kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl) writes:
- >>Is there a way to forbid OS/2 to store extended attributes on a FAT drive?
- >
- >Not really. If you write protect the disk, I don't think OS/2 will
- >give you an error though. It doesn't on my system. Of course, you
- >can't write any files when you do that.
-
- In that case, would someone care to explain why it seems that every single
- file has extended attributes?!? I was copying some files that constituted a
- DOS game to floppy. The files totalled less than 720K, but wouldn't fit on
- a 720K floppy. Confused, I looked around, and found a 60K EA file on the
- floppy!!! There's no good way to just delete the sucker, so I had to use
- eautil to remove the attributes from each and every file to free up enough
- disk space to copy the last file.
-
- This is stupid! Most of the files were just plain *data*. There's no
- reason for OS/2 to assign extended attributes to these files, but it did.
- There's no telling what the EAs were, but the program ran just fine without
- them!
- --
- Paul Close pdc@sgi.com ...!{ames, decwrl, uunet}!sgi!pdc
-
- "I came to Casablanca for the waters...."
- -- 'Rick', Casablanca, 1942 (50th anniversary!)
-