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From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: [Q] moving sparse
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tar --sparse
dump
probably cpio

(ie. any of the above to a file, then ftp the file and unarchive it)

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> 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
>