Comment Re:there's a few useful bits of software already (Score 1) 146
In another instance,
Nicholas Harbour, who at the time was working for the Department of Defense Computer Forensics Lab (DCFL)
wrote a loving modified dd that writes to multiple files and streams to multiple programs at the same time. The program, dcfldd, also introduces the sorely missed VERIFY operation, and even block-by-block hashes, ( dcfldd Man page)
Maybe someone will combine this with dd_rescue, ddrescue and dd_rhelp to make the ultimate "Convert and Copy" utility
Ah and I can dream of SCTP support too