Re: Disk images. Was [Solved] Re: Difficulty with a shell function.

[Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@iki.fi>]

David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:

> There are two different pages being consulted here:
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_image
>
> and:
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image
>
> the second one being reached by a redirect from:
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Optical_disk_image&redirect=no
>
> The author of the first page can't even manage a consistent spelling
> in the five words "disk sector by disc sector", quoted by the OP.

Traditionally, optical media is referred to as "disc", while magnetic
media is termed "disk", but at the present day this is no longer
consistent. Furthermore, I don't think sectors on optical media was
commonly referred as "disc sector".