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Re: Two notes on exetoc posting to comp.sources.unix

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From: Tom Neff
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 08:29
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In article <13768@diamond.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:
>Two notes on the recent exetoc program posted to comp.sources.unix:
>  1.  Yes, I know the company name is spelled Exabyte.  So what?
                                               ^^^^^^^

But in article <2454@litchi.bbn.com>, he wrote:
> ...
>X * exetoc.c  --  A program to read, write, and rewrite tables of contents
>X * 		 on tapes in an exebyte tape drive.
				^^^^^^^
> ...
>X#define	IOBUF_SIZE	KBytes(62)	/* Exebyte likes 62KB chunks */
						   ^^^^^^^
> ...
>Xexetoc \- Manage a table of contents on an Exebyte 2GB tape cartridge.
					     ^^^^^^^

So the question, Mr. Chairman, is:

	What did the programmer know,
	and when did he know it?

[ wild buzzing from spectators ]

<BANG> <BANG> Order!  No further outbursts or I'll have the chamber cleared.

-- 
Canada -- a few acres of snow.    ^v^v^    Tom Neff
                 -- Voltaire      v^v^v    tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET
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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: Two notes on exetoc posting to comp.sources.unix
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Date: 13 Apr 90 08:29:21 GMT
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