gregjohn wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> gregjohn wrote:
>>>> It's not hard. You know what sectors you need to burn ...
>>> How?
>> If you don't know what you need to burn into each sector, your CD burning
>> software sucks. :-)  How could you *not* know which sectors you need to burn?
>>
> 
> 
> AFAIK, Neither Roxio on the XP platform nor K3b on the Linux one gives *sector*
> information until it's deep into the burning process.   Can you name an app
> that tells you sectors up front & show a screen grab of how it's presented?

Maybe I'm being unclear. By "you" I mean "the application" or perhaps "the 
programmer of the application".  How does a program burn a CD without 
knowing every byte it writes to the CD?  How does it not know exactly how 
many bytes it's going to write? How does it not know whether that many bytes 
fit on a standard size CD?

If the application can burn the CD, it can certainly figure out how many 
bytes it's going to burn, yes? If it tells you it will fit and then it 
doesn't, it's because it's not using the same algorithm to lay out the files 
for the burn as it's using to calculate the space used, and that's a bug.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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