Begin3 Title: hole Version: 0.2 Entered-date: 07MAR95 Description: Program that creates files with holes in them. Usage: hole output-file < input-file The reason for this program is that the current GNU cp and tar utilities do not create files with holes so files with lots of zeros in them, like the libc shared library, will occupy the full amount of space even when unpacked from a sparse tar file. This program writes out the output file by seeking over regions of consecutive nulls so that the holes do not take up any space. This is good for making rescue disks that use libc-lite.so.4.x.xx as the shared library shrinks by around 260K (for libc-lite.so.4.6.27) after making holes. Keywords: file hole rescue Author: cheah@cs.columbia.edu (Po Shan Cheah) Maintained-by: Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/file 3K hole.tgz Alternate-site: ftp.cs.columbia.edu /pub/cheah 3K hole.tgz Original-site: Platforms: Copying-policy: public domain End