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<hppavilion[1]> slwd scow//s#$# Scheme is usually preferred, but Racket will be accepted in a pinch.#
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date Sat, 15 Oct 2016 06:09:37 +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.