Around 08:14pm on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 (UK time), Mikkel L. Ellertson scrawled: > > You were correct Mike, dd did work. I wrote the file with: > > $ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdb -dao test.txt > > > > And copied it back with: > > $ dd if=/dev/hdb of=test2.txt > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve > > > > > Dumb question - what happens if you run something like > "cat /dev/hdb" or "less /dev/hdb"? I would think that > you could access the file contents that way. Not a dumb question, or at least not one I thought of trying. And it does work. Cool - Windows-proof CDs :-) Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 20:48:31 up 115 days, 23:15, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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