On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Giuseppe Corbelli wrote:
>> You can use other commercial tools as well, but free tools will
>> likely suffice for you. CDRWin is my choice under Windows for
>> doing DAO burns. I only use Windows for burning when Linux
>> software such as cdrecord can't pull the line so to speak...
>It's your choice but dear Jeff Arnold sohuld have spent more time in error
>reporting routine. Simple dialog with sense data (if I remember well) is
>not enough to track problems down.
I don't know who Jeff Arnold is, but I'm assuming he's the author
of CDRWin.. I've never had a bad burn with CDRwin. I wish it
was ported to Linux as it is the best CDR software I've ever used
hands down. I prefer open source and use cdrecord religiously
when it will do what I need, but it doesn't do DAO, at least not
DAO that _I_ need. I've been waiting for 3 years and although
there have been improvements to cdrecord over that time, the
number of features it has added that actually affect me in any
way is "0". It seems portability to 8000 operating systems is
more important than highly requested features. I'm not dissing
it as a great program, as it is fantastic in every way for what
it does. I'd like to see it be an all-in-one program though.
>> Mixed mode DAO copying for example.
>Use cdrdao for simple copy jobs.
I can use xcdroast/cdrecord for simple copy jobs. Anything else
I need requires mixed mode DAO and no linux utilities work. I
have tried numerous times with CDRW disks to no avail.
I haven't looked at it in a while, but I doubt much has
changed. Too bad. I bet the first high end CD burning software
ported from Windows to linux gets some action happening. If
the windows burner app "nero" were to be ported to linux, I bet
within a month we'd see a new project on sourceforge called
"lero" or "gnero", "knero", etc.. Nobody seems to care about
stuff like this until a commercial app comes along, then everyone
gets upset it isn't open source and decide to clone
it. Unfortunately they usually spend more time making web pages,
and coding "skins" code and "plugins" code and leaving the actual
functionality of the apps non-existant so you get this cool
wallpaperish application that you can plug stuff like nmap and
quake II into as plugins, but the app has no actual functionality
compared to the thing it is trying to clone. GRRR! ie: ICQ
I am going off on this because I hate Windows 9x/NT and want to
have zero reason to use it. Right now CDRWIN is one major reason
I still have to use Windows.
Sorry for the rant... not aimed at anyone... just letting of some
frustration. Blame it on Windows blue screen of death this
time.. ;o(
TTYL
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