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<oerjan> le/rn hoag/`[hd]o[aw][gt] [<filename>] is a set of commands for querying HackEgo logs. `hoag is the basic version. d adds dates, w looks only in wisdom, and t lists in reverse.
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date Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:25:27 +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.