In the last episode (Oct 22), Juri Mianovich said:
> I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU
> dd:
> 
> dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc
> 
> The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand the
> "oflag" argument.
> 
> Is there some equivalent in the FreeBSD 'dd' syntax
> that I can use, or am I forced to install GNU utils ?

Why not "cat /blah >> /bleh" ?  dd is usually used on raw device nodes,
and appending doesn't make sense there.

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        Dan Nelson
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