On Wednesday October 16 2002 11:57 am, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:01:09 -0500 Tom Brinkman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> >    733544448 bytes == 699.6 MB   and easily fits on a 700MB CD
>
> Apparently not with _xcdroast_...  it just "burned" a blank disk... 
> I just burned 8.2 successfully on the *same* platter that xcdroast
> claimed was burned with 9.0....  I'm burning 9.0 with -overburn right
> now...  of course, that can only be done with _cdrecord_ directly
> since xcdroast does not appear to have support for overburn and many
> other cdrecord options.
>
> xcdroast also claims there is no ATIP info, yet cdrecord gave:
>   ATIP start of lead in:  -11634 (97:26/66)
>   ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
> on that same platter...
>
> Bottom line:  GUI frontends generally suck!
>
> Pierre

    Yep, forced me on to burnin from the CL a year or so ago. After 
reading a few docs for just a little while, I soon learned the CL is 
quicker, easier, and just about bullet proof. With the use of just a 
coupl'a aliases, you can start to burn CD's faster than most GUI's 
load.
-- 
    Tom Brinkman                  Corpus Christi, Texas

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