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<fizzie> mkx /hackenv/bin/asmbfx//asmbf "$@" > /tmp/asm.b && ${HACKENV-/hackenv}/interps/egobf/src/egobfi8 /tmp/asm.b
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:21:54 +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.