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Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't make CD without temporary file
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:30:47 -0400
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> 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