Writing FOSS for Win32: A good LUG meeting topic?

David J Berube djberube at berubeconsulting.com
Wed Mar 19 11:01:44 EDT 2008


Back in the day, I vaguely recall using a win32 build of mkisofs and 
cdrecord to do CD backups via a script. Nontrivial for beginners, but it 
does work.

Take it easy,

David Berube
Berube Consulting
djberube at berubeconsulting.com
(603)-485-9622
http://www.berubeconsulting.com/

Ben Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   Sidenote, but..  It's running Windows XP, it can write/record a data
>>  DVD or CD.
> 
>   I've never gotten the built-in CD writer feature of Win XP to work
> for DVDs of any kind.  CDs, yah, but not DVDs.
> 
>   That said, XP's built-in CD-R/RW support is certainly good enough
> for most purposes for CDs, and is all I usually deploy at $DAYJOB.  It
> is limited, though.  It can't do things like close a session, "delete"
> a file, or create/write a disc image.  For that, I add CDBurnerXP.
> 
> -- Ben
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