01-25-2005
dd would be my choice, but the disadvantage is that it is block level, so it has to copy blocks that have not changed.
Is this a boot disk, or a data disk? If it is data, I would use cpio -pdmv
This will not copy files that have not changed, saving I/O.
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fribidi_shape_mirroring
fribidi_shape_mirroring(3) Programmer's Manual fribidi_shape_mirroring(3)
NAME
fribidi_shape_mirroring - do mirroring shaping
SYNOPSIS
#include <fribidi.h>
void fribidi_shape_mirroring
(
const FriBidiLevel *embedding_levels,
const FriBidiStrIndex len,
FriBidiChar *str
);
PARAMETERS
const FriBidiLevel *embedding_levels
Input list of embedding levels, as returned by fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels.
const FriBidiStrIndex len
Input string length.
FriBidiChar *str
String to shape.
DESCRIPTION
This functions replaces mirroring characters on right-to-left embeddings in string with their mirrored equivalent as returned by
fribidi_get_mirror_char().
This function implements rule L4 of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm available at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#L4.
SEE ALSO
fribidi_charset_to_unicode(3), fribidi_unicode_to_charset(3), fribidi_parse_charset(3), fribidi_shape_arabic(3), fribidi_get_par_direc-
tion(3), fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(3), fribidi_reorder_line(3), fribidi_get_bidi_type(3), fribidi_get_bidi_types(3),
fribidi_get_bidi_type_name(3), fribidi_debug_status(3), fribidi_mirroring_status(3), fribidi_set_mirroring(3), fribidi_reorder_nsm_sta-
tus(3), fribidi_set_reorder_nsm(3), fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels(3), fribidi_get_type(3), fribidi_get_type_internal(3),
fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(3), fribidi_log2vis(3), fribidi_join_arabic(3), fribidi_get_joining_type(3), fribidi_get_joining_types(3),
fribidi_get_joining_type_name(3), fribidi_get_mirror_char(3), fribidi_shape(3)
GNU FriBidi 0.19.2 30 January 2006 fribidi_shape_mirroring(3)