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<kspalaiologos> `` cp -rf /hackenv/tmp/asmbf-1.2.7/bin/* /hackenv/lib/kps/
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:47:30 +0000 |
parents | 272663b31668 |
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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.