What's a good prototype for write(2)?

Stephen J. Friedl friedl at vsi.COM
Mon Oct 31 11:25:09 AEST 1988


In article <8798 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>
> In fact, PDP-11 UNIX could not read or write tape records containing
> more than 64K-1 bytes.

The drives on the AT&T 3B5 and 3B15 are limited to *8k* blocks.

Damn.

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