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   Hey Charles!   
      
    CB> not to mention a DVD which wasnt around really in 95 :D   
      
   Thank goodness.  I never really liked CDs and all DVDs added was greater   
   capacity with no additional assurances that the spinney disk of plastic isn't   
   entirely useless over a relatively short lifetime.  Mind you the plastic will   
   be long after this civilization has burned out.  Back around 1999-ish I   
   thought flash disks (compact flash) would be the ultimate install source.    
   There were CFdisk -> ide adapters but not hotswapping other than the usb ones   
   which at the time weren't bootable.   
      
    CB> DD never barfed on anything   
      
   I've seen it bog down on some bad CD/DVDs to the point of having to kill the   
   process.  If you allow it to, dd will try for days to make a copy.  Persistant   
   little bugger.   
      
     file -b /usr/bin/dd   
     ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked,   
   interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped   
      
   Worth vastly more than it's weight in bytes.  The above is the coreutils   
   version of dd.  Isn't everybody's?   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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