Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:03:31 -0400, Brian C. Murphy wrote: > Re Microsoft sucking up to the open source community: > Maybe, but when is microsoft going to write the DOS device drivers for add > on peripherals, such as CDRW'S so that Dos users can effectively use the > many peripherals that have entered the computer world since Microsoft did > its damndest to kill DOS. > Brian Murphy M$ does not need to write them... they already exist http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/ I have been burning CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVD-Rs and DVD-RWs in 100% pure DOS for several years now. burnback.bat burns everything on all 6 of my DOS partitions onto DVD-RW -- burnback.bat --- @echo off set TZ=-0500 nwcache /u if "%1"=="nozip" goto makeiso md j:\drvs_c-h del j:\drvs_c-h\*.zip zip -9 -r j:\drvs_c-h\drive_c c:\*.* zip -9 -r j:\drvs_c-h\drive_d d:\*.* zip -9 -r j:\drvs_c-h\drive_e e:\*.* zip -9 -r j:\drvs_c-h\drive_f f:\*.* zip -9 -r j:\drvs_c-h\drive_g g:\*.* zip -9 -r j:\drvs_c-h\drive_h -x@c:\burnback.xcl h:\*.* :makeiso g: cd \doscdrb3 if "%2"=="noiso" goto burn del k:\*.iso make9660 -p -m j:\drvs_c-h\ drvs_c-h k:\drvs_c-h.iso :burn addev aspi.sys cdtools /format /id=0:1:0 /noconfirm file2cd k:\drvs_c-h.iso /id=0:1:0 /noconfirm /nounderrun /speed=16 deldev aspi.sys del c:\aspi.log ________________________________________________________________________ -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/msdog.html http://www.glennmcc.org/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --