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  • From: Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>
  • To: baslinux-request AT lists.ibiblio.org, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BasLinux Digest, Vol 37, Issue 9
  • Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:28:32 -0500



>Subject: [BL] Cleaning Linux
>BL3 DOS Loop


>
>To make the zip smaller I
>need to replace in the loop all
>the characters that are no
>longer used by programs
>with the same character (asc
>128).
>
>This cannot be done in DOS
>as it does not know which
>bytes are in use.
>
>Anyone knows of a linux
>script to do it ?
>

One way to do this would be to create a new fs.img, cat /dev/zero into it,
and cp -a all the contents to it. Then all unused bytes would be zero.

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