From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <533A7CE2.8000109@mail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:46:26 +0200 From: Adriano Verardo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] oseekb dd option Topicbox-Message-UUID: d42a410c-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Testing an rc script under Bell and Atom I noted that Atom dd doesn't implement the "oseekb" option. bs=1 allows to seek at any given byte offset but, what is the impact on speedness ? And, in any case, isn't it a (IMHO small) portability problem ? adriano