On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:19:50AM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: >On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: >>Well, why not have BitTorrent set the file as sparse? > >Because it runs as Cygwin app which is Unix-like environment. There is >no way to set files sparse in Unix because all files are sparse if the >file systems supports it.
...which is, coincidentally enough, why I was interested in the patch. cgf