10 Dec 16 05:39, you wrote to me:

 ml>> yup... as long as politics, religion, or money are involved, we do
 ml>> all seem to get along pretty well :lol:

 PH> :)

wow! what a typo up there... s/are involved/are NOT involved/  :lol:

 ml>> FWIW: the way to create that file with dd?
 ml>>
 ml>>   dd if=/dev/zero of=lastread.bbs count=1 bs=400

 PH> That rings bells, I used this when setting up my INN2 server to create
 PH> cycbuff storage files of 50 gigabytes each... it was a cool way to set
 PH> them up.

yup, dd is a very cool tool... i used to use it when ripping CDs for my
virtual jukebox... not music CDs, though... program CDs... it was so much
faster and easier to have them automount and autodismount when they were
needed... if only i could remember how or at least find the linux magazine
that had the recipe...

 PH> Thanks for the detailed info you shared :)

you're welcome :)

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