[Info-vax] UPDATED: Finally - it works...

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <x_Dvl.26426$ZP4.5542 at nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com>, Michael Austin <maustin at firstdbasource.com> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <49bebc5b$0$8975$703f8584 at news.kpn.nl>, Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> writes:
>>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG vaguely mentioned on 16-3-2009 20:23:
>>>
>>>> On Weendoze:
>>>> ===========
>>>> Play SOLITAIRE while the above operations ensue.
>>> or, use http://www.magiciso.com/ to create your ISO file and then 
>>> proceed with LD as stated...
>> 
>> The point I was trying to make is that it can be accomplished natively 
>> on Mac OSX and Linux.  It looks like in order to do this on a WEENDOZE
>> box, one needs to have 3rd party software and, in the case of the soft-
>> ware you indicated, and addition $29.95 expediture.
>> 
>
>
>UPDATE:
>created an NRG file and copied to VMS box... ~6hrs...
>
>%$#%@$#%@
>
>  mount/over=id lda11
>%MOUNT-F-NOHOMEBLK, Files-11 home block not found on volume
>-MOUNT-I-VOLIDENT, label = '............', owner = '............', 
>format = '...
>..........'
>
>
>found a unix script to
>
>dd if=.nrg of=.iso bs=4096 skip=75

Use of 'dd' is what I'd written in follow-up to the Linux section; although
I didn't supply the force read and write bytes or the skip blocks.  I don't
see any difference in the file 'dd' produces.


>and because I have the Cygwin shell, I had access to dd.
>
>Copied over the .iso file
>ld connect isofile lda10
>mount/over=id lda10
>Wooohoo.. got software disk..

I've read on many forums about problems people have had using NERO.  Reading
said complaints makes me quite happy that I'm _NOT_ a WEENDOZE user.

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