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     Re: man's most serious activity is play   
     By: Maurice Kinal to Charles Blackburn on Wed Oct 12 2022 00:16:43   
      
      
    MK> Hey Charles!   
      
    CB>> not to mention a DVD which wasnt around really in 95 :D   
      
    MK> Thank goodness. I never really liked CDs and all DVDs added was greater   
   capacity with no additional assurances that the   
    MK> spinney disk of plastic isn't entirely useless over a relatively short   
   lifetime. Mind you the plastic will be long after   
    MK> this civilization has burned out. Back around 1999-ish I thought flash   
   disks (compact flash) would be the ultimate install   
    MK> source. There were CFdisk -> ide adapters but not hotswapping other than   
   the usb ones which at the time weren't bootable.   
      
   oh come on... we all know the ultimate was "disk-On-Chip" (i have a few lying   
   around here somewhere :D)   
      
      
    CB>> DD never barfed on anything   
    MK> I've seen it bog down on some bad CD/DVDs to the point of having to kill   
   the process. If you allow it to, dd will try for   
    MK> days to make a copy. Persistant little bugger.   
      
   yea you and me both LOL   
      
    MK> file -b /usr/bin/dd   
    MK> ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically   
   linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for   
    MK> GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped   
      
   I can beat that :D   
      
   # file dd   
   dd:          ELF 32-bit LSB Executable 80386, dynamically linked, stripped, no   
   debug   
   # ls -ld dd   
   lrwxrwxrwx      1   root      root          30    Sep 14  2015  dd ->   
   /opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.7Hw/bin/dd   
   # uname -a    
   SCO_SV sco507vm 3.2 5.0.7 i386   
      
      
    the real size is 16744 bytes :D 30 bytes for a dd yea right LOL that   
   was the symlink size :D   
   regards   
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