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Article #5415Re: What's a good prototype for write(2)?
From: Stephen J. Friedl
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1988 01:25
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1988 01:25
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In article <8798@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>
> In fact, PDP-11 UNIX could not read or write tape records containing
> more than 64K-1 bytes.
The drives on the AT&T 3B5 and 3B15 are limited to *8k* blocks.
Damn.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: What's a good prototype for write(2)? Summary: limited tape blocksizes Message-ID: <918@vsi.COM> Date: 31 Oct 88 01:25:09 GMT References: <902@vsi.COM> <6794@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <21763@watmath.waterloo.edu> <8798@smoke.BRL.MIL> Distribution: comp Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 13