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&quot;holey&quot; file ? are you sure you got that right ?<br />
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-Eric.<br />

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"holey" file ? are you sure you got that right ?

-Eric.


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Where did you get that info ? what OS ? ....<br />

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Where did you get that info ? what OS ? ....


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I think I understand, and no, I don't have any application in particular in mind.<br />
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One last thing, how can I recognize one of this files?<br />

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I think I understand, and no, I don't have any application in particular in mind.

One last thing, how can I recognize one of this files?


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What is it? Why do they exist? Why I can't handle them as other files? 
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What is it? Why do they exist? Why I can't handle them as other files? 

What is a holey file?

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.