On Thursday 11 April 2002 01:25, you wrote:
> If the CD-ROm is the first SCSI CD drive,
> dd if=/dev/scd0 of=image.iso
>
> If the disk is a non-ISO filesystem, like an AIX install or Mac CD,
> then:
>
> dd if=/dev/scd0 of=image.iso bs=1
FYI dd is an EBCDIC <> ASCII conversion program
often used in this role because it can count blocks and reblock
mainframe data as well as do charset conversion.
in this case you are doing neither, so therefore,
cat /dev/fd0h1440 > floppy.img
cat /dev/hdc > cdrom.iso
cat /dev/scd0 > cdrom.iso
in unix, just about any device can be used as
a streamer.
So is dd "wrong" ?
No ! ,, but it is important to convey hints to how the system
works, its just the spark a person needs to discover
the powerfull world of unix tool plumbing.
Cheers !!
Raymond
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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our
will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of
others." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The
strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep
and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government"
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
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"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere
restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor
with all that's good" -- George Washington
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"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is
that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188
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"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish
their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the
people, and making it an offense to keep arms."
-- Constitutional scholar Joseph Story, 1840
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"As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this
gives [only] moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness,
enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with
the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the
body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun,
therefore, be the constant companion to your walks."
-- Thomas Jefferson, writing to his teenaged nephew.
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"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not
only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the
preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily
life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice
for that freedom." -- John F. Kennedy
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The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly
been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic;
since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and
arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these
are successful in the first instance, enable the people to
resist and triumph over them."
-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court
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False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real
advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that
would take fire from men because it burns, and water because
one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except
destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are
laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither
inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
-- Cesare Beccaria, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson's Commonplace book
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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people.
The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman
and a slave.
-- "Political Disquisitions", a British republican tract
of 1774-1775
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& what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are
not warned from time to time that his people preserve the
spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing
will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give
up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
-- Patrick Henry, June 5 1788
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Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing
degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our
own defence? Where is the difference between having our
arms in our own possession and under our own direction,
and having them under the management of Congress? If our
defence be the *real* object of having those arms, in whose
hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal
safety to us, as in our own hands?
-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 9 1788
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"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual
way to enslave them." -- George Mason, June 14, 1788
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"The great object is, that every man be armed. [...] Every
one who is able may have a gun." -- Patrick Henry, June 14 1788
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That the said Constitution shall never be construed to
authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the
press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people
of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping
their own arms... -- Samuel Adams, in "Phila. Independent
Gazetteer", August 20, 1789
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any
government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right
of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of
the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against
arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a
tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which
historically has proved to be always possible.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey, 1960
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The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept,
and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major
commentator and court in the first half-century after its
ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual
right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful
manner.
-- Report of the Subcommittee On The Constitution of the Committee On
The Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, second session
(February, 1982), SuDoc# Y4.J 89/2: Ar 5/5
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Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons.
If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
-- Yoshimi Ishikawa
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The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the
right of the people at large or considered as individuals...
It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable
and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive
them of. -- Albert Gallatin, Oct 7 1789
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised
over any member of a civilized community, against his will,
is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical
or moral, is not a sufficient warrant
-- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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clintonsoft.c:666: warning: `morality_and_integrity' defined but not used
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Raymond Moyers N5LAX email: rmoyers_at_nop.org
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