What's The Limit

[Mike McCarty]

Steve Searle wrote:
> 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?

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.

Mike
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