# Copyright (C)  2006  Daniele Zelante

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

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copyblock is free software.  See the file COPYING for copying conditions.

copyblock is a very simple command line tool which can work in 2 ways:
 
1) it reads from a regular file or a block device and writes to stdout,
   it can detect zeroed areas and write sparse files,
   maximum read size can be specified
   (useful when reading block devices containing iso filesystem) 
 
2) it reads from stdin and write to a block device or regular file,
   sync write can be forced
   (useful when writing slow devices and wanting to have good progress and ETA)
 
In both modes "copyblock" writes to stderr info about progress
and estimated time to complete. 
 
Files and block/char devices larger then 4GB are supported. 
 
I have tested it on:
 GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD : i386, x86_64
 Cygwin : i386 
 

Be very careful when using in write mode !!!

4 scripts *.sh are provided as typical examples


See the file INSTALL for building and installation instructions.

Please send all bug reports by electronic mail to: <zeldan@email.it>

