On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, der Mouse wrote:

# >> # gzip -d < miniroot-14I.fs.gz | dd of=/dev/rsd0b bs=20b conv=sync
# 
# > I think dd mistreats input from a pipe.
# 
# I'd phrase it more as "dd is not designed for this" - you really want
# something that converts from stream input to blocked output, with
# padding.  You can do this with dd ibs=1, but that's grossly
# inefficient.

Whatever happened to "dd bs=20 conv=block,sync"?

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