Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bh1e+ From: bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: GS/OS 3.O & ICON INFO Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 14:38:14 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 The question of the sparse file transmission came up because I had received an EXE file that is used to change already compiled programs into Expressload format... the destination file was about 1.5 to 2 times larger than the original file. idea: Hmmm...a neat way of copy protecting files... make it sparse, and have it check its size before running...anything that was copied under ProDOS 8 or transmitted over a modem ends up not working... great...wonderful evil thoughts I had thought that only text files could be sparse...guess I was wrong... :)