<b_jonas> slashlearn block device/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.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, urllib
if len(sys.argv) <= 1:
    print "http://codu.org/projects/hackbot/fshg/"
else:
    print ("http://codu.org/projects/hackbot/fshg/index.cgi/raw-file/tip/" +
        urllib.quote(sys.argv[1]))