What's The Limit

[Steve Searle]

Around 08:14pm on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 (UK time), Mikkel L. Ellertson scrawled:
> > 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.

Not a dumb question, or at least not one I thought of trying.  And it
does work.

Cool - Windows-proof CDs :-)

Steve

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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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