Copy iso Disk

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 22:26, DARREN BROWN wrote:
> The if=/dev/cdrom is the CD inside the CDROM containing the data I wish to copy.
>
> Then what is of=/target/dir/file.iso?
> If I understand, file.iso is the data that is copied to this directory.
> If so, can I then copy the data to a CD burner? Like a USB burner? HP....
>
>
> Regards,
> Darren
>
> ----- Original Message -----
AS I understand it yes.
if = input file
of = output file

The only think I'm a bit unclear of here is if I'd need to then run
mkisofs on file.iso

Carl P.