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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Subject: Re: docs for learning about CD burning?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:55:17 -0500
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On Tuesday 29 January 2002 07:46 am, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
> Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> types:
> > > There's got to be a more direct way of doing task 2, and the list
> > > archives mention dd but everyone seems to be arguing about exactly how
> > > to do it. So far I see that you can make an image of a data (or
> > > audio??) CD with a command like
> > >   dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048
> > > but I don't know whether I can just change it to of=/dev/cdwriter
> > > to do the whole job in one action, or use a pipe to a burncd command,
> > > or does it only work via an ISO image on the hard disk?
>
> burncd doesn's take input from stdin.  In theory you should be able to use
> a pipe, but in practice when I've tried this it makes coasters.  (That is,
> the disks don't work right.)

AUGGHH!   This made no sense.  Let's try it again:

Burncd doesn't takeinput from stdin.  In theory you should be able to use a 
NAMED pipe, but in practice when I've this it makes coasters.


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