The VAX is running

[Richard]

In article <f4eb766f0904031640g7c90507eo92411f16365021e1 at mail.gmail.com>,
    Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>  writes:

> Back in the day, we used to move copies around on magtape, bypassing
> all sorts of stream-of-bytes issues.  Today, of course, most things
> expect streams of bytes, so that's how most things are presented.

How does magtape avoid the stream-of-bytes issue?
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