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- Title: hole
- Version: 0.2
- Entered-date: 07MAR95
- Description:
- Program that creates files with holes in them.
- Usage: hole output-file < input-file
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- The reason for this program is that the current GNU cp and tar
- utilities do not create files with holes so files with lots of
- zeros in them, like the libc shared library, will occupy the full
- amount of space even when unpacked from a sparse tar file. This
- program writes out the output file by seeking over regions of
- consecutive nulls so that the holes do not take up any space.
-
- This is good for making rescue disks that use libc-lite.so.4.x.xx
- as the shared library shrinks by around 260K (for
- libc-lite.so.4.6.27) after making holes.
- Keywords: file hole rescue
- Author: cheah@cs.columbia.edu (Po Shan Cheah)
- Maintained-by:
- Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/file
- 3K hole.tgz
- Alternate-site: ftp.cs.columbia.edu /pub/cheah
- 3K hole.tgz
- Original-site:
- Platforms:
- Copying-policy: public domain
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