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[peter da silva]

From:  peter at ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)

In article <770 at longway.TIC.COM> From: jason at cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions)
> Read()/write() are stream operations; only TCP is a stream transport
> provider. OSI TP0/2/4 maps much more closely to stdio and fgets()/fputs()
> in that it is record-oriented.

The same is true of a UNIX tty device with canonical processing. So?

> What does it mean to seek() on a network endpoint?

What does it mean to seek() on a pipe?
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