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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: dump/restore
Summary: preserving/creating zeroes
Message-ID: <8384@alice.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 04:48:41 GMT
References: <17413@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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actually, Ninth edition has a -z flag to cp that creates holes in the destination
if they may have been in the source. (of course, user-level programs can't tell.)
it works well.