Re: Lost for so long time

[Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 17 août, 20:30, Tony Cianfaglione <ab...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > Sparse file?
>
>     Could be.  I think Michael Hackett knew what it was called when we were
> chatting a couple of years ago.  I downloaded some stuff from Asimov and
> when I went to store it on a hard drive, the actual files were a lot
> smaller than the disk versions.  For example, a 140k file may open to a
> program that's only 26k in size.  I was able to pack a lot of stuff on my
> hard drive in this manner and everything works fine.

Your explanations fit the spare file definition of ProDOS.