I've just found a fault in the documentation of dd (fileutils 3.16).
When run with 'dd --help', dd reports the following:
of=FILE write to FILE instead of stdout, don't truncate file
However, both the 'man' page and 'info' node for dd state this, which appears to be
the correct case:
`of=FILE'
Write to FILE instead of standard output. Unless `conv=notrunc'
is given, `dd' truncates FILE to zero bytes (or the size specified
with `seek=').
Furthermore, dd --help does not list 'conv=notrunc' as an option.
This way of doing it seems strange to me. The other conversion options (with the
exclusion of 'noerror') change the data that is written to the file, but don't change
the way the program behaves. I think both of these options should be promoted to
command line switches, rather than conversion specifications, which they quite
obviously are not.
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Julian Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maintainer of NASM & others.
http://www.web-sites.co.uk/jules
