just took The Plunge, was Re: [geeks] Recommendations?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 7, David Cantrell wrote:
> > Well I guess what I really meant was, about eight people have told
> > me not to use the OS-supplied stuff, and I couldn't find it anyway. :)
> 
> It's built in to the Finder.  Put a blank disk in and you'll get asked what
> format you would like to make it.  Then it'll appear on the desktop and you
> can drag files to it (or, I think, copy them from the command line).  That's
> really a disk image you're editing, it doesn't get burnt until you eject
> the disk.  It Works For Me, although I'll agree it ain't as flexible as
> something like Toast or cdrecord.

  Oh, cool!

  Everyone says it's bad news, though...anybody have any specifics?

    -Dave

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