Tool for listing sparse file layout

Mark Geisert mark@maxrnd.com
Mon Mar 31 09:37:55 GMT 2025


On 3/31/2025 1:26 AM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 11:14, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 10 21:51, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-10 14:01, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> On Mar  7 15:43, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 at 13:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>
>>>>> cygutils-extra
>>>
>>>> There is no cygutils-extra package either.
>>>
>>> Ahem: you may be mistaken ;^>
>>>
>>>        https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/cygutils-src.html
>>>
>>> Source Package: cygutils
>>>    install package(s): cygutils, cygutils-debuginfo, cygutils-extra, cygutils-x11
>>>
>>>        https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/cygutils-extra.html
>>>
>>> Package: cygutils-extra
>>> description: A collection of simple (single source file) utilities,
>>> including banner, conv, cygdrop, cygicons, dump (a hexdumper), getclip,
>>> ipck, lpr, msgtool, putclip, semstat, semtool, shmtool, and winln.
>>
>> Oops, I looked into the cygwin-pkg-maint file only *blush*
> 
> Could you please add lssparse.exe there? It's simple, single-file, and
> unlikely to change often (since its function is just to list the data
> and hole ranges in a file).

I'm not promising to do this, but I'll take a look. Where might I find 
this wonderful tool in source code form? Google drew a blank.

..mark


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