Re: [9fans] Can't make CD without temporary file

[FJ Ballesteros <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>]

This makes me love that /acme/mail/Mail shows most recent messages
first.
Just used netscape to send mail and made the mistake of suggesting to
look at mk9660 to make it write to stdout, and several messages after
was the right answer from rsc.

sic, sorry.

Russ Cox ha escrito:
>
> > The problem is that I don't want to have to create the temporary
> > image file cdimage.
>
> Sorry, you have to create the temporary file.
> The man page came before the mk9660 rewrite.
> Mk9660 is two passes now, and depends on having
> a seekable file.  This means you can't just write a
> CD on standard output, but it also simplified everything
> about mk9660 enough to do, for example, Rock Ridge
> support.
>
> > The example in CDFS(4) states that you can create write to a CD
> > without the intermediate file with:
> >
> > disk/mk9660 -9cj -n notice cdproto >cd/wd/foo
> >
> > but that doesn't work because mk9660 expects a file argument and
> > doesn't send its output to stdout so > won't work.
>
> Fixed the man page.  Whoops.
>
> Russ