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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: File size error question!
Message-ID: <1490@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 89 14:42:55 GMT
References: <213300001@prism>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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  It's not an error, it's a warning. Files may have "holes" in them, in
which the file was written with random writes. Databases and core dumps
are examples.

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon