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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Enhancement to dd (conv=sparse)
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:28:13 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: pascal@zuo.dec.com, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199509201848.UAA10535@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 20, 95 08:48:31 pm
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yes I have this patch sitting here too
I was thinking of adding it..

be my guest..
it looks ok,
(I forget if it had a man-page update as well)

julian

> 
> As Pascal Pederiva wrote:
> > 
> > here are the diffs of /usr/src/bin/dd ( 2.1.0-950726-SNAP ) to 
> > add an option to dd, which creates sparse files.
> 
> More than one week ago.  No opinions?  No objections?  No flames?
> 
> Should i integrate it?
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>