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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU-tar vs dump(1)
Summary: real examples
Message-ID: <8684@alice.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 04:26:34 GMT
References: <17999@adm.BRL.MIL> <629@mks.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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this happens in real life with dbm databases (and probably all
hashed databases) which are huge and sparse.