files with holes

[Mel Pleasant]

Is it safe to have holes in files that would not normally have them?

The application - we run a distribution system which copies files to
client systems.  The client engine could check for nulls in the files
coming in over the network and skip over them rather than writing them
out on the disk.  If the client engine did this for *all* files, does
anyone know of any problems that would arise?  Please email your
responses.  I'll summarize and supply the summary to anyone that wants
it.
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                                  Mel Pleasant
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