Re: Re Looking for more Debian packages
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:36:17PM +0000, Jianan Huang wrote:
> Those double d commands are marvellous; simple and yet effective. It
> even produces a positive side-effect; a backup copy of the floppy
> image in the harddisk. I don't know if I'm the only one with this
> problem; I read through 'dd' with 'man' but is left with the
> impression that it is only for files copying. Which part indicates
> that it can do image copy?
In Unix, devices are typically presented as files, and you can read from
them (sort of) just like ordinary files. With this knowledge it's more
clear that you can treat a floppy disk as a file and just read off all
the data.
'info dd' has an example of copying between a disk and a tape.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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