[ale] Never mind my last message. Stupid me... Now looking for an app.

[Jeff Hubbs]

Gee, I hope not.  Those apps result in a non-portable, unsupportable 
mess.  The simple fact is, it's *still* CD-burning but it's putting an 
application layer between the CD contents and you, the user.

What's really happening under the hood is that it's written autorun info 
and multiple data tracks to the drive without fixating.  If you "delete" 
from this magic "disk drive," the files never really go away; their 
presence is simply marked as null somehow and a new track is started 
when you write.  So, it's possible to run one of these "fake disk 
drives" out of space even when, through the utility, there aren't any 
files visible. 

As far as I know, the CDs so created and the apps that create them are 
not interchangeable, but someone can correct me if I'm wrong. 

I think Jim Kinney and I both know of a place where that crap got used, 
with tragic results.

Jeff

Jim Lynch wrote:

>Back when I got my first CD writer, it came with a neat utility that let 
>me use a blank CD just like a hard drive partition.  It looked like just 
>another drive and I could drag and drop files to it.  It worked exactly 
>like a normal disk partition.  Obviously if you did a lot of modifying 
>it, you'd run out of room eventually since these were CDROMs not CD RW 
>devices.  Anyway I wondered if anyone had written a similar app for 
>Linux?  It would be kinda handy for backups.  Avoid all that nonsense 
>of  burning.
>
>THanks,
>Jim.
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