OT? This can't be right!

[Beartooth]

On Monday, 9/30/02, Tim Seufert <tas@mindspring.com> wrote:

> I assume you used the OS X built in burning software?  I don't
> think that it supports session burning, which is the only way to
> add data to a CD-R or CD-RW.  You probably have to use a program
> like Toast to burn sessions under OS X.

	What I had in mind when I asked was straight OSX, yes;
that's why I feared it might be OT. Someone on another list has
suggested that session burning might be buried under layers of
configuration menus somewhere. If so, I didn't find it (but I have
what seems to me inordinate trouble finding anything in OSX). I did
find a hint in the help for CD burning which seemed to imply that
session burning might require external hardware.

> Burning CDs under Linux can be kind of a pain,

	You can say that again! I've tried hard under RedHat, and
had mighty little success so far. So I haven't even tried YDL
itself yet, figuring I had little chance of doing appreciably
better with it.

> but it definitely can be done.  (The main problem, IMO, is that
> there doesn't seem to be any really nice GUI frontend for
> cdrecord -- or, at least, I've never found one.  If you can
> figure out how to use cdrecord directly, it is quite powerful and
> works very well.)

	Many thanks for the reassurance! I need all I can get. ;-/

> What programs are you using and what are the problems you're
> having with them?

	Xcdroast, cdroast itself in a terminal, and one with an
icon looking like an old-fashioned pop-up toaster, only blued like
gun metal, instead of chrome-plated and mirror-polished; the name
escapes me at the moment. The furthest I ever got, even with help
over the Net, was to burn a .iso of several sizeable files onto a
CD with cdroast -- and when I tried to open that with a reader, it
spewed so bad I just killed the app. :-(

Andrew Hodel <andrew@eurozip.net> suggested gtoaster.

	I hope that isn't the one with the toaster icon whose name
won't come off the tip of my keyboard! I'll look next time I boot
to linux -- and how about KDE?? Anybody got a good one there?

	I've just erased and reformatted last night's test CD-RW,
after moving last night's work back onto the hard drive <sigh>;
now I'll ftp a swampload more of old email off my ISP, burn it onto
it, and rename it part of the email archive. But that's the big
hammer, and I'd be a lot better off archiving bits every month,
when my account starts running up against its quota. Like Tim, I'll
be very glad to hear of something that doesn't require three years
of postdoc in linux to be able to use!
-- 
Beartooth Implacable <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
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