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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: dd curiosity
Message-ID: <1990Jan2.082444.10405@twwells.com>
Date: 2 Jan 90 08:24:44 GMT
References: <396@zok.UUCP> <592@junkyard.UUCP>
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <592@junkyard.UUCP> joe@junkyard.UUCP (Joseph Sarkes) writes:
: dd skip= READS over the amount specified. See if your dd command has an
: option iseek= instead of using skip=.

Mine, Microport SysV/386 3.0e, has an option iseek. What it does
I haven't tested. It is, of course, undocumented. Grrrrr.

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