Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!eplrx7!mcneill
From: mcneill@eplrx7.UUCP (mcneill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: SunOS 3.5 dd (ibs == obs) != bs
Keywords: Bug or Feature
Message-ID: <37@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 18:34:57 GMT
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In using dd in a pipe such as:

   rsh otherhost "tar cbf 512 - ." | dd bs=262144 of=/dev/rst9

I noticed that this does not work, but:

   rsh otherhost "tar cbf 512 - ." | dd obs=262144 ibs=262144 of=/dev/rst9

works just fine.  I looked at the System V source for dd and saw something 
like:

   if (bs) ibs = obs = bs;

which leads me to believe that setting bs should do the same thing as 
setting both ibs & obs.

Does BSD do something different which makes this feature or did I miss
something in the source.


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