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 in the
RJT>machine altogether, though I guess if I'm not running X it won't be too 
RJT>bad... 

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

 The cygwin version might just work on your '9x box even w/o the
same resources that are in my laptop. The original install w/ the
front-end is 1.7meg zipped and the updated exe's (everything but
the front-end gui and helps) is 763k zipped.

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

 -=> Yours sincerely, Paul Williams <=-

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