What's The Limit

Steve Searle steve at stevesearle.com
Tue Dec 12 20:05:26 UTC 2006


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

-- 

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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