Re: Convert *.img to *.iso?

From: Cameron Simpson (cs_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:29:29 +1100
To: Benjamin Khoo <benkhoo@copperblue.per.sg>

On 08:44 05 Feb 2004, Benjamin Khoo <benkhoo@copperblue.per.sg> wrote:
| i guess the *.img file is a CD Image file...
|
| does just executing a "mv" to *.iso really work?

Of course. Extensions are just labels, no more meaningful than calling a
directory "my-photos" or suchlike. The data within has not changed.

Further, a lot of tools don't care about the extension. (C compilers and
things like "make" tend to be exceptions because they treat different
files in different ways.) So, for example, cdrecord just wants a data
file to burn to a CD. It doesn't care about the name. So you may not
need to rename the file at all!

However, it is good to keep to a consistent naming scheme just so you and
others know what's going on.

Remember that UNIX files don't have types (at the OS level). 

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