[arachne] Re: [OT] Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration

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Wow, they even cover USB burners. Well that's that.

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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Glenn McCorkle wrote:


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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
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