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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:43:37 +0200 (EET)
From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se,
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Subject: Re: truss, trace ?? 
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

> > > 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 ;)

	As for me, I don't.

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

Best regards,
Andrew Stesin

nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE