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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:06:37 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Were all of you.. Hippies?
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 07:31:30AM -0400, Ron Natalie wrote:
> Maintaining records iwas far from unheard of at the time networking showed up in UNIX.    Think about how the UNIX tape driver works.

I think that unix "records" are just a struct in binary in the file.  That's a
little different (a lot different?) than what most operating systems mean by
records.  Unless I'm mistaken.