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From: dmr@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: tmscp tape drives give "hard error" on reading too small a record
Message-ID: <6817@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 21:34:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 21:34:30 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Apr-87 05:58:45 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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The Seventh Edition manual, section HT(4), says, "During a read
[of the raw tape device], the record length is passed back as the
number of bytes read, provided it is no greater than the buffer
size; if the record is long, an error is indicated."

I'm certain no console chatter occurred.

	Dennis Ritchie