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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