To PR Senders

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Sat Aug 21 20:29:57 UTC 2004


On 2004-08-21 16:24, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:23:29 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > : pink-> dd if=mbox of=lala bs=50k count=1
> > : 1+0 records in
> > : 1+0 records out
> > : 51200 bytes transferred in 0.000862 secs (59404804 bytes/sec)
> > : pink-> /usr/bin/time scp lala keramida at igloo.linux.gr:
> > : lala                                           100%   50KB  50.0KB/s   00:00
> > :        21.34 real         0.05 user         0.01 sys
>
> Try:
>
> dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/ad0 bs=1m
>
> And call me in the morning ...

HEH :-)

Since /dev/null returns EOF pretty fast, can you please send my your
phone number privately.  I think it would be nice after knowing you for
a while to actually speak over the phone and have the chance to tease
you a bit about mixing up if/of arguments in dd(1) :P



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