[mdlug] Compression and Archiving

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Raymond McLaughlin
> Ingles, Raymond wrote:

> > Based on my understanding, to write onto optical media needs a
> > filesystem format specifically
> > designed for that. So, either iso9660 or UDF.

> Just for grims, mostly, I have tinkered with writing other formats to
> optical media, and found it can work. The command line cdrecord, or
the
> later wodim, will write any binary blob you feed it to the media
without
> complaint. You can do the same with K3b. It will give you stern
> warnings, but let you proceed if you insist that you know what you are
> doing.

 Doesn't that in essence create an iso9660 filesystem with one file the
binary blob?
Or have I misunderstood? (I wouldn't be surprised if I had...)

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                (313) 227-2317

         Microsoft Windows - The joke that kills.

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