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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

   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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