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From: root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: HPFS
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Date: 1 Feb 90 17:18:17 GMT
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In article <176.25C191B9@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Koos.Van.den.hout@p11012.f101.n500.z2.FIDONET.ORG (Koos Van.den.hout) writes:
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> 
> > Which leads me to "extended attributes".  I have picked up a couple bits
> > about  these, but need to know more before I can see any use for them.
> 
>The BYTE of Januari 1990 contains an interesting article on HPFS and extended 
>attributes. According to the writer, the Februari issue will contain a more 
>'technical' story about HPFS and extended attributes.

Why do people talk about Extended Attributes only in conjunction  with
HPFS? EA's are a feature of OS/2 1. 2,  not  of  HPFS  in  particular,
meaning that you will be  able  to  use  Extended  Attributes  on  FAT
partitions also.
   The Byte article mentioned above (January 1990)  does  not  contain
any information that wasn't already on this newsgroup some  time  ago.
As far as technical details of HPFS go, I can  recommend  the  article
recently published in the "IBM Personal Systems Developer" magazine.

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