Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Now you're misunderstanding plain English!
By golly, you're right I am. What you are saying (that I didn't
I feel better now:-) He who laughs last, etc.
understand the first time I read it) was that using this syntax, you
don't actually need to give it an ISO file, any old file will do.
Correct[1].
That example is from the man page. The fact it contains a prebuilt ISO
filesystem is immaterial, it's a file and growisofs is just writing a
file to the DVD, doing no processing and not (AFAIK) verifying it's an
ISO image.
To me, that wasn't clear from the man page. I assumed that it actually
required an ISO file and wouldn't work without one. So, I never tried
it without one.
Imagine the confusion if it read
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=big.cpio
Now, a cpio would be interesting, given that the kernel's initrd is a
cpio file these days.
[1] One of the radio people has the habit of saying "Correct," in a
similar way to others' use of "Absolutely." Some of the others have been
catching it, probably unawares.
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Cheers
John
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