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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Tape Driver Changes Proposed: Tape Early Warning Behaviour
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In-Reply-To: Matthew Jacob's message of Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:13:06 -0800 (PST)
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Just a nit about terminology:

>   If the write completing didn't transfer all data that was requested, then
>   the residual count is returned to the user application.

Surely the "residual count" is the number of bytes *not* written, whereas
what is returned to the user is the number successfully written.

-- Richard

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