Am 06.11.2013 00:01, schrieb redmasq:

> On a side note, I remember NTFS supporting sparse file in Windows, although I
> believe the application has to do special api call (DeviceIoControl maybe?) on
> the file handle or something like that to take advantage of it. Although I would
> imagine supporting it would result in an unnecessary headache to the developers.

Maybe not entirely unnecessary, but at least additional headache.

Still, I'd suggest to file a feature request on http://bugs.povray.org. 
If you could also find the time to figure out the necessary API calls, 
that would of course be a great help to the developers ;-)

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