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