From: "\"Dr.\" Ruud" 
Subject: Re: NetWare files are growning up to 4gb!
Date: 1998/11/18
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Visit http://www.euronet.nl/users/rovabu/wvw/
and look for the "Sparse and Bigfile" product.
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"Dr." Ruud

jan grant wrote in message ...
>Bernd Dorfmueller wrote:
>
>> a little file which has a maximum size of approx 4mb grows up to 4gb, =
but
>> even we don=B4t 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
>--=20
>Bolstered by my success with vi, I proceeded to learn C with 'learn c'