--On September 7, 2005 8:36:20 PM +0100 Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yes, personally, I had no problem with the hyphen, but ... I posted last week that my confusion had arisen out of the "skip=1", having located the required archive. The need to rewind and skip 2 files in this case could have been avoided at step 1 above. Now *that* would make a difference.
dd operates at the block level, thus a skip of one skips one block, not file.
it is a little confusing at first but AMANDA assumes (maybe incorrectly these days) familiarity with dd.
