> > it is a simple:
> >
> > dd if=<your cd device name goes here/> of=MyLovelyMVSImage.iso
> I don't know why "everyone" recommends dd for this purpose. I've been
> using the easier cp command and it works perfectly well. dd has extra
> options, but they're not needed in this case.
What Alan Cox said, plus:
I try to keep certain habits. For the ever so unlikely chance
that I might land on a UNIX system where 'cp' would not suffice,
I use 'dd' when copying from/to a device.
A similar "habit" is doing variable assign and export as
two commands, not just one. While most contemporary shells support:
export TERM=vt100
I recommend always doing it this way:
TERM=vt100 ; export TERM
