Paul Williams wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PW> Hi Roy J. Tellason, hope you are having a nice day

PW>> Using cdrecord I was able to burn at 4x by telling it to use 32meg
PW>>of the 160meg in the system as extra buffer space. (34meg buffer w/
PW>>600k write speed going empty?? yeah right!) ];>

RJT>I dunno how much ram I can tell it to use, since there's only 64M 
RJT>in the machine altogether, though I guess if I'm not running X it 
RJT>won't be too bad... 

PW>  That's probably the thing. When I've run it or even when trying to 
PW> get the adaptec/roxio junk to work I killed off as many processes 
PW> as I could and still keep 'doze running. 'Though w/ cdrecord it 
PW> isn't quite as necessary since none of the programs are gui based.
PW> (but what would you expect when the entire mess is originally *nix
PW> based programs) ]];>

Hmm.

PW>  W/ the cygwin port there is a gui front-end you can use to help
PW> setup the proper cmdline but the actual work itself is done just
PW> like if you were using a dos program on an xt.

PW>  Advantage I see is that once you've used the front-end you then 
PW> know what the exact command to use is and can write up the 
PW> batchfile from heck to automate things.

So it's easy to see what it wants to do,  then?

PW>  The package comes w/ a number of tools, including a cd-a ripper, 
PW> iso (image) creator, image verifier, and burning program among
PW> other things.

PW>  It's also all freeware. (gpl) ]:>

Ah.  Then there's only the matter of getting a hold of it.

RJT>It's nice that you can tell it to use a slower speed.  That mean that I 
RJT>don't have to worry what it says on the box,  then?

PW>  Right. If the drive here was faster than 4x then I could set it to
PW> burn at the faster speed or to run at 1x. The same thing goes for
PW> the cd ripper, my drive is a 4x4x24x and by using the right
PW> variable in the cmdline I can rip any/all tracks from 1x to 24x
PW> (max is 42x but since my drive isn't that fast..)

I have a couple of different programs on the linux box that'll do ripping, 
the one being more standard,  the other being more able to cope with errors
and somewhat more flexible,  but also slower -- that's the only one I
tried, and probably why it took so darn long.

PW>  The cygwin version might just work on your '9x box even w/o the
PW> same resources that are in my laptop. 

Not likely.  First off there's no more room to stick another drive in
there, it's a desktop case and there are no more drive bays,  second it's
an all-SCSI system,  third it's only a P66,  fourth it's a Compaq...    :-)

PW> The original install w/ the front-end is 1.7meg zipped and the 
PW> updated exe's (everything but the front-end gui and helps) is 763k 
PW> zipped.

PW>  The installed setup on the laptop is only 1.5meg zipped and all
PW> you'd have to do is just unzip -d somewhere and go to it. Uninstall
PW> of that way is as simple del *.* of whatever dir you put it in. 

I'm not clear at this point which software you're running on which machine.

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