From: martin.lang@vs.dasa.de (Martin Lang) Subject: AW: cp problem. 22 Mar 1998 13:53:37 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD53D7.52FC9180.cygnus.gnu-win32@langm.vs-ulm.dasa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "'Pal Engstad'" , "'GNU-Win32 Newsgroup mail'" Thanks a lot for the tip. It worked great! How can I make the option '--sparse=never' default for cp? Martin ---------- Von: Pal Engstad[SMTP:engstad@hunt.inmet.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. März 1998 22:13 An: martin.lang@vs.dasa.de 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. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".