On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 20 16:59, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Well, actually, I've always wondered -- what makes NTEA NT-specific? For
>
> It isn't. It's OS/2 specific. NT allows extended attributes for
> OS/2 compatibility in the first place.
Well, that's kind of what I meant -- is it possible to implement them
using the Win9x API?
> > the most part, all NTEA does is store some information (e.g., permissions,
> > and, of late, owner) in a special file in the root directory. The only
>
> Only on FAT. NTFS stores them in a file stream (as HPFS?).
>
> Corinna
Sure, and we were talking about FAT...
Igor
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