> file would have a different md5sum from a burnt ISO file to disc, where > the contents of that ISO file is written not the ISO file itself. My
No - the ISO and the cd are (or at least should be) the same thing -- because an ISO is simply an image of a CD, bit for bit identical. It's kind of like an archive - for instance if I took an image of a tape written with 'tar' it would be the same thing - in this case, a tar file. > reasoning being that an iso file may be compared to a locked suitcase of > books, against a shelf of books all individually available ? I guess so, but think of it as an archive of files. The "packaging" (or to use your analogy of a suitcase) is transparent; the ISO is the collection of files, not just a set of files packaged into another file, because that implies packaging headers and so forth. > John
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