What's The Limit

Steve Searle steve at stevesearle.com
Mon Dec 11 23:04:25 UTC 2006


Around 01:00am on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 (UK time), Joe Smith scrawled:

> At least for CDs, I sometimes just skip making an iso containing only 
> one big file (my backup.tar.gz) and just use cdrecord to write the tar 
> file to the CD instead of a .iso.
> 
> I read them back with something like ``tar -xvzf /dev/cdrom''

If I use cdrecord to write a file to a cd, how can i read it back.  Say
a text file?

Steve

-- 

A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q:  Why is top-posting a bad thing?

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