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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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> > On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Mikael Karpberg wrote:
> > > > Yeah, the cyclic file type is (stupidly) missing from unix.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Or? Am I completely off line here?
> > 
> > 	No you aren't.  I was thinking on it for years... but
> > 	not enough hacking skills to do it actually.
> 
> Cyclic file types imply record orientation.
[.....]

Unless of course you don't mind having a truncated line at the start of your log ;)

This (IMHO) would be more "natural", 'cos there shouldn't be any "record" knowledge at that level.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....