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From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: write(2) to tape with odd byte count
Message-ID: <1758@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 17:11:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 17:11:28 1985
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Is it possible to create a tape with an odd number of bytes
per record?  When I try such an operation with write(2), I
get a return code of -1 (Oh, sorry, this is 2.8BSD).  When I
do an identical write to a disk file, there is no problem.
Do tape controllers only work in words?

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	Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp