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- From: vjarnot@mnw.net (Asmodeus)
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- Subject: Re: Any info on reading or writing to CD-ROM?
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:12:54 GMT
- Organization: Never!!!
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- On Mon, 25 Mar 1996 20:32:57 GMT gm78@dial.pipex.com (Matt Francis)
- spewed such:
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-
- >You can't write to a CD-ROM. Just to remind, the RO part stands for
- >"read-only". There is such a thing as a CD-ROM burner (for people with
- >$many) which will write whole CDs at a time on special writeable
- >blanks, but this is still write-once - you can't change it thereafter.
- >[at a push, these will do multiple "sessions" on one CD, sequentially,
- >but for technical reasons, you lose a number of megs per new "session"
- >apart from whatever it is you want to write]. If you want to use one
- >of these, I believe (being far too poor to own one myself!) that they
- >generally need their own, proprietary software, which will probably be
- >sold seperately to you for another $many.
-
- Actually to clear things up just a bit more : CD writeable drives have
- been plummeting in price for a while now, with a little searching you
- can pick one up for about $1500.
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