[ale] dd and cat

[Ben Phillips]

If I want to replicate, say, a floppy disk, I can do it with 'cat /dev/fd0 >
image' followed by repeated instances of 'cat image > /dev/fd0'.

But the recommended way to do that is usually with 'dd' instead.  Why?  What
do they do different?


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