On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Daniel Seagraves
<dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net> wrote:
Magtape has blocks.
On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Richard wrote:
> In article <f4eb766f0904031640g7c90507eo92411f16365021e1 at mail.gmail.com>,
> ? ?Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> ?writes:
>
>> Back in the day, we used to move copies around on magtape, bypassing
>> all sorts of stream-of-bytes issues. ?Today, of course, most things
>> expect streams of bytes, so that's how most things are presented.
>
> How does magtape avoid the stream-of-bytes issue?
Right... one block, one RMS record.
On UNIX systems, tape blocks tend to be all one size. Somewhat less so on VMS.
-ethan