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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-06 22:23:22 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-06 22:23:22 +0000 |
commit | ca298332c9649c2500f0e4f3d94401193db3349c (patch) | |
tree | a2f1af75d795779c6d51b1367dc11979819b3043 /share/man/man4/st.4 | |
parent | b224066e4d677e6eb97225a356f813c8f7fa5c81 (diff) |
More man page fixes. Spelling, grammar, some typos. Lots of double-word
occurrences squashed as well.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/st.4')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/st.4 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/st.4 b/share/man/man4/st.4 index f97132956b4..d5674e99cfc 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/st.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/st.4 @@ -171,18 +171,18 @@ and before the next item after that. If the next item is a file mark, but it was never read, then the next process to read will immediately hit the file mark and receive an end-of-file notification. .It Fixed block-size -Data written by the user is passed to the tape as a succession of +data written by the user is passed to the tape as a succession of fixed size blocks. It may be contiguous in memory, but it is considered to be a series of independent blocks. One may never write an amount of data that is not an exact multiple of the blocksize. One may read and write the same data as a different -set of records, In other words, blocks that were written together +set of records. In other words, blocks that were written together may be read separately, and vice-versa. .Pp If one requests more blocks than remain in the file, the drive will encounter the file mark. Because there is some data to return (unless there were no records before the file mark), the read will -succeed, returning that data, The next read will return immediately +succeed, returning that data. The next read will return immediately with an EOF. (As above, if the file mark is never read, it remains for the next process to read if in no-rewind mode.) .El |