Summary of responses to file allocation question, plea for changes in Unix

[mercer at npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COMDanMercer]

Did you attempt to use a holey file for this?
fp = fopen ("cdstuff", "w");
fseek (fp, 0x100000,0);
fputc ('\0',fp);
fclose(fp);
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Dan Mercer
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