[COFF] Re: Shell script advice: using 'dd' to write multiple media

[Steve Jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>]

> On 27 Jun 2023, at 09:44, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
> 
> f space is not an issue, you can use split(1) to divide
> the input in N pieces and then use a separate loop to copy
> them to the media. If you want to stream the distribution
> on stdin but still copy to N disks or whatever, you can
> write a simple C program that will prompt the user to switch
> media, print out checksum etc. If you want to *not* split
> files across media (and no file is greater than media size),
> you can use makekit from Rich Salz's cshar (comp.sources.unix
> Volume 15).

Bakul,

Thanks for the note.
I’d not heard of “makeit” before, will go hunt it down.

1. this was the 1980’s, space was always an issue :)

2. There are many cases where you’ve only got a 
    stream. This distributions were the first
    time I hit this problem type.

3. The distributions were a compressed tar or cpio
     of a directory structure, to be exploded at destination.
     There wasn’t a need to fit files onto media.

cheers
steve j

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