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Subject: Re: Accessing a VAX tape drive from a S
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Date: 8 Sep 88 23:16:00 GMT
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>/* Written  7:07 am  Sep  7, 1988 by roy@phri.UUCP in uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.wizards */
>	The kernel has no concept of blocking factor. 

You're right, I'm wrong.  Every once in a while part of my brain reverts to
my old IBM MVS days, where device selection and file blocking is controlled
external to the actual program in the JCL.

Patrick Wolfe  (pwolfe@kai.com,  kailand!pwolfe)