[plug] CUE/BIN vs ISO

[Derek Fountain]

On Wednesday 03 September 2003 16:52, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Why are some CD images distributed as CUE/BIN pairs, and others ISO? What
> > does one format give that the other does not?
>
> An ISO is just the filesystem image, where a cue/bin is an image of an
> entire CD. In reality, it doesn't usually matter unless you're dealing
> with applications that have very strict requirements about how the CD
> looks. You can write cue/bin files under Linux  - either with some kind
> of converter tool, or maybe one of the cd writing apps (cdrecord,
> readcd, cdrdao, etc) supports it. I can't remember now.

So if I:

dd if=/dev/hdc of=image bs=2048

what is the 'image' file? It'll be mountable with "-t iso9660" which implies 
it's an ISO. In reality it's a binary copy of ... what? I'd assumed the 
entire surface of the CD, but now I'm inclined to think that's not right.

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