Hello,
I have been trying to track down a problem whose core symptom seems to be that, if the cdrom has an executable on it that was created with pp, it will not be ejectable. This is occurring with Windows XP Pro.
To isolate the problem, I also tried
1. Making a cdrom with only windows xcopy.exe on it. 2. Making a cdrom with only text files on it. 3. Putting in a game cdrom, letting it autostart, and exiting the game. Everything works fine with the above three.
The file hello.pl says print "Hello\n"; exit; and then I do pp -o hello.exe hello.pl I believe I tried it with just "exit", too.
I put in the blank cdrom, let windows pop up the cdrom drive window, copy hello.exe to it, and then click on "Write These Files To CD (if memory serves correctly). I then
. Let the freashly created CDROM eject
. Close the CDROM door.
. Open the CDROM door.
. Put in the freashly created CDROM.
. Listen to the CDROM spin.
. Wait for the CDROM to stop spinning.
. Try to eject the CDROM using the CDROM button.
. Get annoyed that the CDROM does not eject.
. Try to eject the CDROM using the mouse.
. Try running the executable (it runs just fine).
. Try this and that, and the other thing, too, to eject the stupid CDROM. . Give up.
Having a CDROM with an executable created with pp seems to be the kiss of death such that I need to shut down and reboot to get my cdrom to eject.
Can anyone else verify this on an XP machine? Any one have any ideas why this is happening?
