.bin = binary files?

[Ronnie T Livingston]

hey lucas, i think i have the cds at post.  Ill walk over and check then
bring it over if its still there.

-Ronnie

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Mimpin Halim [Lucas] wrote:

> hi everybody,
>
> i'm lucas. i've been in the list for awhile but haven't been following with
> the list everyday. work has been a pain in the as* lately. but i will surely
> try to read and understand every single mail that get into my mailbox from
> the mail-list.
>
> ronnie, welcome to the list. i'm wondering if you have a redhat 7.1 cd? or
> do any of you? and if you don't mind borrowing it to me i will greatly
> appriciate it, i lost mine.
>
> thanks,
> lucas
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: epsas at inflicted.net [mailto:epsas at inflicted.net]
> >>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:48 AM
> >>To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> >>Subject: [luau] Re: .bin = binary files?
> >>
> >>
> >>Ronnie,
> >>
> >>.bin files are usually floppy BINary images.  You can use these
> >>to create boot floppies, driver floppies, rescue floppies and
> >>such.  .bin files are also used in bootable CDROMs.
> >>
> >>The conventional way to use a .bin file is:
> >>
> >>	# dd if=/tmp/foo.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync
> >>(where dd reads from '/tmp/foo.bin', writes to '/dev/fd0' [floppy
> >>dev], using a block size of 512, with each 512 byte block padded
> >>with a NUL byte [conv=sync].)
> >>
> >>This, of course, is only useful if your .bin file is to be used
> >>for floppies.  Some .bin's are made specifically for CDROM boot
> >>images.  The conventional wisdom is if your .bin file is smaller
> >>than 1.4MB, it's a floppy image.
> >>
> >>Adidas,
> >>Charles
> >>
> >>
> >>On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:11:05AM -1000, Ronnie wrote:
> >>> Hi, Ive been spending the last half hour at work trying to
> >>figure out what
> >>> one does with .bin files after it is downloaded.  Is there some kind of
> >>> special technique used to unpackage it or do I just rename the file
> >>> without the .bin?
> >>
> >>
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