\_ SMTP quoth lynn.newton@cox.net on 4/2/2002 17:21 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ It's not my intent to post results, either, because it's \_ not a contest. How are we supposed to garner good discussion if you don't post the results? If the list gets too noisy on the merits of dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb vs mkisofs /dev/hda | cdrecord we can tell people to take it off list or something. I'd reply to the questions if I knew a summation was forthcoming. But that's my $0.02. David