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From: res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: bsplit?
Message-ID: <13756@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 23:04:54 GMT
References: <1990Feb3.170608.600@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli,55216,cb,1C315,6148604268)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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>The real problem, though is that you can't feed the script from a
>pipe.  dd is almost unique among the unix tools in that it
>uses read() rather than fread() and will fail to read the
>requested amount if the input pipeline cannot stay ahead.

Yes.  One way of dealing with this, although it may not be the most
efficient, is to change instances of

	... | dd -args | ...
to
	... | dd bs=whatever | dd -args | ...

This has worked in a pinch for me several times.
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