Unusual Question

[Doug Hardie]

> On 13 July 2017, at 08:24, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:12:17 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> 
>> There is no oskip; I have to check dd(1) every time myself .. there's:
>>     iseek=n  Seek on the input file n blocks.  This is synonymous with
>>              skip=n.
>>     oseek=n  Seek on the output file n blocks.  This is synonymous with
>>              seek=n.
> [..]
>>> I didn't capture this but I did run the dd with the oskip of the big 
>>> number and it showed all zeros.
>> 
>> There is no oskip.  oseek (aka skip) would work.
> 
> Argh .. I've done it myself: that should say oseek (aka seek).  For this 
> very reason I _never_ use iseek or oseek, being quite confused enough :)
> 
> cheers, Ian


Yes oskip should have been oseek.  I didn't have access to the actual screen or man page when writing that all down.  I previously set kern.geom.debugflags=16.  The system here is very old and i386 only.  I may play with that again if time permits.