Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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
There is no such thing as an EOF marker inside a file in *NIX
style systems. CP/M and later MSDOS used ^Z as an EOF marker.
But *NIX style FSs store the size information in the directory,
as did later MSDOS and Windows.
Mike
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