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view wisdom/block device @ 11649:dc989cb6091e draft
<shachaf> mkx bin/detar//echo "https://en.allmetsat.com/metar-taf/north-america.php?icao=$1"
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Sat, 17 Nov 2018 03:00:43 +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.