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

[Eric Dittman]

> > > >   - no CD burner software
> > > What do you mean, no cd burner software?  I burn CDs with OS X just fine
> > > with nothing but the OS....
> > 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.

You know, Windows XP works pretty much the same way.
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Eric Dittman
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