Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 07:33:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: files.from.machine.to.machine, hackers Subject: [Q] moving sparse Message-ID: <199703071533.HAA20833@freefall.freebsd.org>
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how should i move a file with "holes" from one machine to another. the immediate problem is Mathematica notebooks. these "sparse files" are shown by "ls" to be 140MB long (every Mathematica notebook is the same length according to "ls") even though each one is less than 200kB on disk (du -s ). "mv" and "ln" work fine of course. but how do i transfer these from machine to machine? ftp inflates them to full size. ack! jmb
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