Subject: bug#45648: `dd` seek/skip which way is up?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 20:08:36 -0800

On 1/4/21 7:44 PM, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> TLDR: *huge* existing presence of 'iseek' and 'oseek'; most OSes document
> them as pure synonyms for 'skip' and 'seek'.

Thanks for doing all that research. It's compelling, and I think your 
patch (or something like it) should go in. I'll wait for a bit to hear 
other opinions.