<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.

#!/bin/sh
. lib/interp

# Get the bitwidth from the command
BW=`echo "$I_CMD" | sed 's/.*bf//'`
if [ "$BW" = "" ] ; then BW=8 ; fi

interp_file ./interps/egobf/src/egobfi$BW