Phil: You can certainly put the whole user's guide document into your computer, either the plain text version, the microsoft word version, the html versions, any two, or all three, and then use the computer to search for relevant text. That's exactly what I've done with the text version, simply because I don't want to be bothered running around trying to locate the disk that came with the Plextor.
Now, as for time-limited recordings, yes, you could remove the battery, but burners **hate** being shut down by power removal during the burn process, which is exactly what your plan would involve, (okay, yes, I do realize that you were thinking out loud, so perhaps "plan" is not an accurate word). Such a strategem would emphatically *not result in a clean, time-limited recording; it would, at a minimum, result in a corruptted unplayable disk, and could well damage the machine; almost certainly so if done on a regular basis. Again, I think your best strategy is to get a device which will cut off power to your sound / program source, and have your Plextalk set to stop recording after thirty seconds of silence, which silence begins, obviously, at the point where power is removed from the sound source, assuming that that sound source itself has had its batteries removed, unless there's a switch on the radio or sound source which controls whether it receives its power from batteries or the a.c. mains, in which case, make sure that switch is set to the a.c. mains position. Of course, all this assumes that batteries are even an issue; you may be using a receiver or tuner component of an overall stereo system. Take care! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Parr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 4:36 AM Subject: How about this. O k, from now on I will put these little conundrums of mine in statement form, and maybe we can fool god. That concept shouldn't be considered radical, , organized religion has been trying it for years. I know, this isn't the place for all that and, I apologize. To my way of thinking, the inability to use the sleep timer, as it is called, while recording is an oversight by the manufacturer. You know, some where in the vast labyrinth of consumer goods their is a timer that would let me record for two hours and then cut off the power to the machine. Wait, that won't work, their is the battery, but, I could always remove it. See their, I told you this was a conundrum. So John, are you saying I could just put the entire manual in my computer as a word document and then search with word. Notice I didn't put a question mark at the end of that sentence so, it couldn't possibly be a question. Thanks much for all the help, Phil Parr. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
