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Reblocking buffer for tape writes

This is a program designed to speed up writing tapes. The program splits itself into two processes. The first process reads (and reblocks) from stdin into a shared memory buffer. The second writes from the shared memory buffer to stdout. Doing it this way means that the writing side effectly sits in a tight write loop and doesn't have to wait for input. Similarly for the input side. It is this waiting that slows down other reblocking processes, like dd.

Version: 1.19 License: GPL-2 GitHub
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Categories sysutils
Homepage http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/archivers/buffer
Platforms darwin
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Error: cannot check if buffer was updated (Connection timed out after 30000 milliseconds)

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