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<shachaf> mkx ../bin/brl//url "$HACKENV/bin/$1"
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:10:14 +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.