On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:01, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Understanding how the file abstraction works is to my mind a question
of
basic culture around here. As a piece of engineering design balancing
functional elegance with practicality it's a wonderful thing to
contemplate and a key element of the success of the Unix model,
I agree. Thanks for the explanation, links and pointers, Patrick.
FC
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"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."
Richard Hamming -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code