As one example, consider the case of undelimited tape records
where the \n is only implied. They were sometimes called
'Card-image' but were in use long after cards.
And let's all try to cut down on list squabbling, please.
John A.
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No, I don't, because your entire example was
disk-centric,
Wrong i used it as an example, the raw stream already fit
its intended destination in the hard drive case.
spools off a cdrom in the wanted configuration in the cdrom
case, and best fiddled with on disk in the old-tape case.
which simply doesn't apply to tapes.
Yes it does