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<oerjan> learn `rlexp <compressed code> is a command for expanding the rle format fungot ^show\'s for brainfuck code but doesn\'t accept as input.
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Wed, 20 Nov 2019 06:37:46 +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.