Re: Write data file to CD

Thomas Taylor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.linux
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 11:28:23 -0700
Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does KDE provide a simple way to write a single data file to a CD? In
> the distant past I used k3b but I don't want to emerge that if I don't
> need to.
> 
> If it matters, this is Gentoo + kde-4.8.3.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
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Hi Mark.
An easy way would be to go into a terminal (konsole) and dd the file to the CD.

"dd if=full-path-to-file of=full-path-to-cd-writer" without the quotes.

I'd just write a short bash script to do that if you do it often.

Tom

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