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Date:      Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:22:28 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        files.from.machine.to.machine@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Q] moving sparse
Message-ID:  <199703071722.EAA23371@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>how should i move a file with "holes" from one machine to another.

	tar Scf - file ... | (cd $destdir; tar pxf -)

>but how do i transfer these from machine to machine?  ftp inflates
>them to full size.  ack!

tar first.

Bruce



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