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Re: CDR software



On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Eli Marmor wrote:

> 
> I'm afraid that this software is for Windows/DOS. Anyway, I am
> considering (for myself!) to buy a CD-R drive too, and one of the
> options I thought of, was installing it on a Windows 95 machine and
> use it through the LAN. My main applications for the CD-R will be
> backuping, andfile transmission to customers. I think that instead
> of looking for a primitive CD-R software for UNIX, it may be simpler
> to get one of the professional and popular packages for Windows. The
> most attractive method for backuping, may be accessing the file system
> of the UNIX by NFS, so all the goodies and benefits of the backup
> packages for Windows, can be used.

I'd seriously reccomend you don't do this through the LAN. If the LAN is
busy enough. kaboom. What I'd do is mkisofs the image and get all of it to
a local disk, and then disconnect the network from the burning machine. We
have a dedicated PPro 200 running NT4 and EZCdPro to burn CDs, and still
some of them fail, for some odd reason. Something is probably fucked up.
We too have a 'No Touch' sign on the machine, which is the kind of machine
I'd love to have at home...

HTH, and Shana Tova,
Nir.
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