On 10/06/2015 11:54 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:
Of course, that's mostly true for those machines restricted to silly octets as their native data representation. :->
And one finds odd-byte-sized records not infrequently in big iron--and then you have to ask "where do most half-inch 9-track tapes originate?" It ain't from DEC, for sure.
FWIW, my routines don't bother to pad to an even byte boundary. --Chuck
