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<b_jonas> `` cd share/mtg && <MagicCompRules-20170925.txt tr -d \\\\r | iconv -f cp1252 -t utf8 > rules.txt
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date | Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:40:50 +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.