Hi Wayne.


 WC>> Close as an internet logon. What's dd?

 RJT>> From the man page: "dd - convert and copy a file". 
Copies from stdin
 RJT>> to stdout,   using specified block sizes (default is 512 bytes),  and
 RJT>> optionally performing conversions.

 WC> Hmm, I'd been using Linux to cp to and from a FAT 16 partition
 WC> with no noticable problems without using dd, guess things were just
 WC> serendipidously lined up right here.

dd is an industrial sterength byte pump... for most tasks it's not needed
but if you need to do something fancier than just copy a whole filee etc
it'll probably do the job.

 -=> Bye <=-

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