Around 10:45pm on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 (UK time), Mikkel L. Ellertson scrawled: > 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? It seems there isn't an eof. Writign a small text file this way to the CD, and then copying it back using the dd statement you mentioned copies back much more data - 614401 bytes. The extra ones are all hex 00's. Opening the file in vi includes all these extra bytes. Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 23:35:50 up 116 days, 2:02, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.02
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