merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (12/13/89)
In article <242@estinc.UUCP>, fnf@estinc (Fred Fish) writes: | This is about the 2nd or 3rd posting I've seen with a sample program to | create sparse files. You guys are working too hard! :-) | | Try: | | echo "This is a sparse file." | dd of=sparsefile seek=1000 bs=1k And, if you don't have echo (:-), perl -e 'seek(STDOUT,2**20,0); print "This is a sparse file.";' >sparsefile Just another Perl hacker (waiting for comp.lang.perl on my machine), -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/