On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Tibor D. wrote: > Debian User wrote: > > > What if you don't know the size, say, you are trying to burn someone's > > cd to have a copy for yourself. > > Peter Horton wrote: > > > try dd if=..... count=`isosize' > isosize is in the xcdroast and the cdwrite package. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=whereever bs=2k count=$(expr $(isosize /dev/cdrom) / 2048) [$( ) == ` ` but nestable] Regards, Anne Bezemer