Re: CDcontrol software released (

[schilling]

>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)

>Also noted in passing, while some implementations of 'tail' have a -b
>option, a block can be 512 or 1024 bytes, making it a bit
>non-deterministic. I don't have a POSIX.1 here, but I have to feel that
>the count by lines and bytes are more likely to produce postable
>results. Since implementations of tail predate POSIX, standard and
>portable are not the same thing, so let's not reopen a discussion of
>that.

All implementations I know use 512 byte. You need it when you like to go back more 
then 64kB.

J�rg

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