Formatting CDs

[William Hooper]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:43:10 -0500
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> 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.

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William Hooper