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Re: apex-1.4.5



* Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> [2006-08-20 11:13]:
> It looks like flashcp only writes to the partition.  I'm not really
> sure what the value add of flashcp is.  It looks like a simple
> open/read/write sort of application.  Seems like dd would do the same
> thing except that this has a progress report option.

Unlike dd, flashcp also erases the partition which might be helpful if
the new file is smaller than the old one.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/



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