What's The Limit

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 11:47pm on Monday, December 11, 2006 (UK time), Mike McCarty scrawled:
> 
>>> If I use cdrecord to write a file to a cd, how can i read it back.  Say
>>> a text file?
>> Insufficient information. The cdrecord command has a lot of ways
>> to do what you specify. You need to post the exact command you
>> have in mind.
>>
>> If you mean what I think you do, then you might need to use
>> dd.
> 
> You were correct Mike, dd did work.  I wrote the file with:
> 	$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdb -dao test.txt
> 
> And copied it back with:
> 	$ dd if=/dev/hdb of=test2.txt
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
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.

Mikkel
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