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Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem



Nano Nano wrote:

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:01:06AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Nano Nano wrote that the installation CD is not an image. I use the 7 Debian CD's, the first two which I listed, of which any one is an installation CD (although I always install from #1). To me they appear to be images. So what does it mean when he says that the installation CD is not an image.

Dictionary.com has an entry for "image" that I guess is authoritative:

# Computer Science. An exact replica of the contents of a storage device, such as a hard disk, stored on a second storage device, such as a network server.
So according to this, a CD is an image, after all.
I don't think this is a very good definition, however.
Certainly not,  that would put us back to square one.

alex






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