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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: What's a good prototype for write(2)?
Summary: limited tape blocksizes
Message-ID: <918@vsi.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 88 01:25:09 GMT
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In article <8798@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@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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