Mike McCarty wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >> 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. > > But, since there is no file, there is no EOF. Using dd > lets you control how much data you pull. The other techniques > don't do that. > Are you sure there isn't an EOF? I would think that the EOF from the original file would be written to the CD. I am not sure how it would work with a binary file, but I suspect that it would work as well. After all, Linux (and UNIX) treat devices as files. Does using "dd if=/dev/hdb of=test.txt" access /dev/hdb differently then opening it in a text editor? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
