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Re: No CCTL or LF
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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:04:24 -0700
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Gavin Scott wrote:
> If HP had chosen to fully implement BINARY bytestream files then they would
> probably have been a solution, but while :LISTF[ILE] can display a TYP "BB"
> file, there's no mechanism for actually creating one.

I know it's probably not what you had in mind, but take a look at:

:LISTFILE /dev/,1

So I would say that mknod is a mechanism for creating a special subcase of BB
files.  ;-)
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