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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: [Q] moving sparse
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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