[SunHELP] FIXED - RE: problem with dd command - extra blank chars added

[Eddie Watkins]

>We have a file that can have a random number of variable 
>length records.  We
>need to dump the file to tape with a fixed length of 512 bytes 
>per record,
>so use the following command dd if=file1 of=dev/rmt/1 cbs=512
>conv=sync,block.
>

It looks like changing the conv=sync,block to just conv=block fixes the
problem.

Eddie Watkins


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