Ok, I've just tried the following using the format indicated. "dd if=/dev/hda1 |bzip2 -9 windows.img" The result was: bzip2: Can't open input file windows.img: No such file or directory. 9+0 records in 8+0 records out Greg On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:25:30PM -0700, Jason wrote: > no need to even do that, dd's output only goes to 'of' if the of= parameter > is specified, otehrwise it copies to standard output. > > all you would need is: > dd if=/dev/hda | bzip <whatever> > replace <whatever> with the command line parameters needed for bzip to output > to a file (refer to 'man bzip' for details). > > > The output of dd always goes to the device or file specified for of= > > Example: dd if=/dev/hda of=something > > My problem here is I don't know how you can specify that of is to be piped > > into bzip2. Some programs use the `-' to represent the standard pipe. in > > which case, you might be able to say: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=-; bzipz - > > Sorry, don't have experience with bzip2's command parms but hopefully this > > makes sense in concept. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
