On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:20 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:43:10 -0500 > > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> Format allows you to use the CD-RW disk as if it was a hard disk or a > >> memory stick to copy files on to it with the cp command or erase using > >> the rm command. > > > > I don't think you can do that with CD's. > > Sure you can. It's usually referred to ask "Packet Writing". There's an > old Sourceforge page for a project to bring support to Linux > (http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/). I don't know what the current status > is, though. Formatting and Packet Writing are not the same thing . -- ======================================================================= Moneyliness is next to Godliness. -- Andries van Dam ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx