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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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Subject: Re: Standards Update, Recent Standards Activities
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Date: 3 Jul 90 18:19:11 GMT
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From:  peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)

In article <770@longway.TIC.COM> From: jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions)
> Read()/write() are stream operations; only TCP is a stream transport
> provider. OSI TP0/2/4 maps much more closely to stdio and fgets()/fputs()
> in that it is record-oriented.

The same is true of a UNIX tty device with canonical processing. So?

> What does it mean to seek() on a network endpoint?

What does it mean to seek() on a pipe?
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