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<b_jonas> slashlearn farbfeld//zzo38\'s Farbfeld utilities is a package of command-line programs (with rather strange command-line syntax) for manipulating images in a specific raw format called farbfeld. It\'s somewhat underdocumented. http://zzo38computer.org/fossil/farbfeld.ui/home
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date Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:14:44 +0000
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Block devices are a concession made in Unix to make raw hard disks and magnetic tape have a similar interface to regular files and terminals. Since magnetic tapes can't write individual bytes, only entire blocks, the interface isn't exactly the same, thus the dreaded dd obs= option was born.