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Date: | 2006-07-24 (08:52) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] ocaml file operations question |
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 07:46:32AM -0700, Jonathan Roewen wrote: > If I'm using an OS/FS that supports sparse files (apparently linux does > this without any magic flags or anything), will reading/writing to this > file work as expected in OCaml? I guess I'll have to use Unix module > anyway just to get a read/write file in the first place... For *nix, the Unix module is just wrappers around the operating system calls, so just do what you would normally do in (eg) C. Later versions of Windows / NTFS support sparse files, but I've no idea what you need to do to support sparse files under that OS. Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com