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To: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 07:12:47 CDT."
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 13:17:49 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > > I disagree. Oh, not in the user interface model, but in the file system
> > > and process model. It takes the UNIX "everything is a file" a logical
> > > evolutionary step forward.
> 
> > Oh great.  One of UNIX's worst abortions, taken to extremes (can you
> > say "ioctl() is a bogus ``API'' for controlling behavior?"  I thought
> > so)..
> 
> Plan 9 doesn't have IOCTL at all. Just about everything is done with open,
> close, read, and write.

So how do you do "out of band" operations, like telling a tape
drive to skip forward to the next mark?

					Jordan