What's The Limit

[Mike McCarty]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>
>>>Dumb question - what happens if you run something like
>>>"cat /dev/hdb" or "less /dev/hdb"? I would think that
>>>you could access the file contents that way.
>>
>>But, since there is no file, there is no EOF. Using dd
>>lets you control how much data you pull. The other techniques
>>don't do that.
>>
> 
> Are you sure there isn't an EOF? I would think that the EOF from the

There is no such thing as an EOF marker inside a file in *NIX
style systems. CP/M and later MSDOS used ^Z as an EOF marker.
But *NIX style FSs store the size information in the directory,
as did later MSDOS and Windows.

Mike
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