On Monday 11 Feb 02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You're welcome. Note to users: I should have added this caveat. this > works only on an NTFS volume. I'm not sure what happens with a FAT, but i > know it wouldn't work. I just don't know if something worse than failure > would happen.
Actually, using CYGWIN=ntea on a FAT volume will create a large file that is *very* difficult to delete. So don't do this. Cheers, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer)