On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote:

> > I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same
> > result and are faster.
> 
> dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the
> default 512 bytes.

Increasing the block size does make it /almost/ as fast as cat, but then
it takes longer to type the command :)


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