One never knows what's going to happen when software package features interact. :( I'm running the latest Cygwin (1.5.10-3) on Windows XP Pro. My HDD is formatted NTFS, with compression enabled-- that is to say, compression is enabled for the drive, with the attribute set to be inheritable to all directories and files created or modified on it (it's sort-of like umask on POSIX).
I am happy to say that Joseph Allen, creator of JOE (Joe's Own Editor), is once again developing his editor (get it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/). Ver. 3.1 has recently been released, and includes many new features. One of the unexpected ones, however, is that it turns off the compression attribute on my system, on any file it saves or modifies. No other Cygwin (nor any other Windows) app does this, and no previous version of JOE (2.9.8 and earlier) that I have built and run under this or any previous version of Cygwin does it either. I have no clue where to even begin looking for a solution (but I've posted this request to one of the joe-editor boards at Sourceforge, as well). Yes, I know that it's only a nuisance and not critical, but still.. Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
