dd curiosity solution

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Wed Jan 3 00:47:53 AEST 1990


In article <398 at zok.UUCP>, mark at zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily) writes:
>    files=          ???
>    conv=block      ???
>    conv=unblock    ???
> 
> Once again curiosity strikes.  Anyone know what the files=, conv=block,
> or conv=unblock options are?

	files=##	specifies the number of files to read from the 
			device (usefull for tape only)
	conv=block	convert varialbe length records (\n separated) to
			fixed length (1 rec/block) records
	conv=unblock	reverse of block


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