Subject: AW: cp problem.
From: [email-masked] (Martin Lang)

22 Mar 1998 13:53:37 -0800
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To: "'Pal Engstad'" <[email-masked]>,
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Thanks a lot for the tip. It worked great!

How can I make the option '--sparse=never' default for cp?

Martin

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Von: 	Pal Engstad[SMTP:[email-masked]]
Gesendet: 	Donnerstag, 19. März 1998 22:13
An: 	[email-masked]
Betreff: 	cp problem.

Same thing happend to me. Guess what, I guess your binary file had a 
lot of 0's in it. When a Unix file system sees this, it will actially
not copy these.

You have to:
# cp --sparse=never from.file to.file

To get a true copy. Go figure.

Actually, if you want to forward this to the gnuwin mailing list, you
are welcome. It should be in the FAQ (or better, the default should
always be --sparse=never on a FAT file system).

Paal-Kristian.

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