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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:35:24 -0400
From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:28:34 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> On 2004-08-21 16:24, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:23:29 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > : pink-> dd if=mbox of=lala bs=50k count=1
> > > : 1+0 records in
> > > : 1+0 records out
> > > : 51200 bytes transferred in 0.000862 secs (59404804 bytes/sec)
> > > : pink-> /usr/bin/time scp lala keramida@igloo.linux.gr:
> > > : lala                                           100%   50KB  50.0KB/s   00:00
> > > :        21.34 real         0.05 user         0.01 sys
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/ad0 bs=1m
> >
> > And call me in the morning ...
> 
> HEH :-)
> 
> Since /dev/null returns EOF pretty fast, can you please send my your
> phone number privately.  I think it would be nice after knowing you for
> a while to actually speak over the phone and have the chance to tease
> you a bit about mixing up if/of arguments in dd(1) :P

You know I couldn't help but to make that comment.  :)

Anyway, I'm cheap, how about you give me the finger and I'll give
you my phone number.  :)

Then you can pester me about the dd(1) arguments and I'll pester
you about emails which promise patches but never deliver on time.

-- 
Tom Rhodes