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Date:	Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:10:38 PDT7
From:	"Don{ald} O. Woodall" <dlswoodall@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Please Pass the Dynamite - I Want to get CDRecord Working

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In , on 08/15/2004
at 12:11 AM, "Steven Levine" said:

Steven

>> Umm, yes there is, a basic understanding as wide as a hurricane.

>:-)

>> My source material is NOT an ISO file. It is the entire contents of
>>Drive M:

>What you really mean is you want to burn a CD that is an image of drive
>M:. To do this, your "source material" has to pass through mkisofs
>before cdrecord will know what to do with it.

>Don't try this now, but file it away for the future. The commands to do
>this would be something like:

I'll wait. Thanks

> mkisofs -v -r -J M:\ | cdrecord -vv -

>This tell mkisofs to take the content of M:, format is as an ISO and pipe
>it into cdrecord. The - tell cdrecord to read the ISO from the standard
>input.

>> Would you please give me a clue as to how "CDRecord" knows where to
>>write the material to?

>You told it when you defined CDR_DEVICE=2,0,0. You could have defined
>the device on the command line with the option dev=2,0,0, but since the
>burner always has the same address, it is simplier to define it with the
>set statement.

Yea, I finally figured that out. I need the experience to complete
the education. Just studying the material is not enough.

>Steven

Thanks

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