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  From: Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : Ian Hogben <ianhogben@yahoo.com.au>
  Date: 18 Apr 2002 17:01:11 +0930

Re: dvd-rw software

cdrecord, yes, but mkisofs? I tryed - and I got a file called -. There
doesnt seem to be an option to say stdout either. :(

Ant

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 16:57, Ian Hogben wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 12:43, Anthony Symons wrote:
> > > You could just pipe the output from mkisofs to cdrecord, as long as you
> > > had some buffer underrun mojo...
> > 
> > I couldnt find a way to get mkisofs to dump to stdout, it only seems to
> > support files. I guess you could use a fifo, but thats a bit messy. 
> 
> I can't find what I specifically read, but the below suggests what I
> swear I've seen; mkisofs should just be able to pipe normally to
> cdrecord. When I read it, my cdburner at the time did not have any
> buffer underrun technology so I didn't bother. I was too proud of my
> linux box never burning a coaster. :)
> 
> 4.27 What will cdrecord do when it stops getting input from the pipe?
> 
> It will finish writing. So you can just couple your favourite backup
> tool with cdrecord using a pipe, like in "bru -size=640m -f - | cdrecord
> dev=0,1,0 speed=2 -". You have to take special care within the backup
> utility if the backup spans multiple CD-Rs.
> 
> 
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