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<izabera> ` echo \'sed "s/./& /g;s/.*/20k&p/" <<< "$*" | dc\' > bin/unaryrpn; chmod +x bin/unaryrpm; unaryrpm 111+/
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date Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:17:40 +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.