On Fri, 3 May 2002, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
the tape - and
stops. I'm not that familiar with non-"streaming"
formats, so I just accept what is without knowing why....
dd on a disk or raw filesystem ignores files. On a tape archive, even
using the raw device as the if, dd reads files and stops at the end of
the first record.
I think you have your terminology mixed here.
What a surprise...
dd reads records and stops at the end of the first
file.
Thanks. Your way makes more sense.
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