Re: NetWare files are growning up to 4gb!

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From: "Dr." Ruud
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:00

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Visit http://www.euronet.nl/users/rovabu/wvw/
and look for the "Sparse and Bigfile" product.
--- 
"Dr." Ruud

jan grant wrote in message <3647108C.E0513D1B@stbrn.ac.uk>...
>Bernd Dorfmueller wrote:
>
>> a little file which has a maximum size of approx 4mb grows up to 4gb, but
>> even we don´t have so much harddisk space.
>
>Sounds like a sparse file. Is this file produced by a database package? If
>so, it may have 'holes' in it (empty space filled with zeroes) due to
>efficiency considerations.
>
>This is nothing to worry about, unless you're using a naieve copy to shift
>the file around with, in which case the zeroes may well all get expanded in
>the target file.
>
>jan
>-- 
>Bolstered by my success with vi, I proceeded to learn C with 'learn c'

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Subject: Re: NetWare files are growning up to 4gb!
Date: 1998/11/18
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