Re: dd syntax question (was: ISO Ripping)

2002-12-23 Thread Erik Price
mike ledoux wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:55:35AM -0500, Erik Price wrote: > >>Why does dd use options named "if" and "of"? I just paged through the >>man page but can't seem to find an explanation. Especially since you >>would think "of

dd syntax question (was: ISO Ripping)

2002-12-23 Thread Erik Price
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: *I* can use dd. [...] On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 11:21, Jason Stephenson wrote: If you just want to rip an ISO image from a CD-ROM, then I wouldn't bother with a gui. Just do this: $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/to/image.iso bs=8k Random, unimportant question: Why do