Once upon a time, William M. Quarles <walrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
man tr
Oh yeah, it also won't work because I'm talking binary, not ASCII.
Wrong.
man tr
Wow, that man page was difficult to comprehend... pretty abstract... info tr wasn't much help either. I had to find an article on it from the IBM website to figure out what I was doing. Anyway, I do appreciate the help.
So, if I'm trying to write all ones to a drive, I'd want to do this? tr '\00' '\77' </dev/zero >/dev/hdb
Looks like that will take a lot longer than dd, because it's only reading in one byte at a time.
If you are suggesting that I try the complement function I don't see how that helps. Then again, I don't know what you are suggesting, since "man tr" doesn't communicate anything other than, "you are ignorant Mr. Quarles, go educate your self on this command called 'tr.'" Well, I'm not as ignorant as I was a few minutes ago, but I am still lost. Could you please volunteer a little more information now?
And again, I really do appreciate your help.
Thanks, William
