begin: Mister Resistor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
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> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
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> > > > what is a block?
> > >
> > > Probably the equivalent of a sector. Read the man pages. :-)
> >
> > i'd be glad to if you could tell me which man page to read... :)
>
> Hmm. I guess the man page assumes people know the terminology.
>
> Well, in this case - rtfsc - read the f'in source code. ;)
read the source code for a program that reads raw data from an arbitrary
block device on a level BELOW the filesystem abstraction?
i don't suppose you want to do this for me, eh?
pete
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