[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/27/19 11:49 AM, David Wade wrote:
> On 27/01/2019 15:31, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 1/27/19 7:56 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> THIS is why you should use the command line.
>>>>
>>>> The command line can't make the file format correct.
>>>
>>> There is no file fomat.  It's just bits.
>>
>> Apparently there is because they get rejected for not being
>> recognizable.  If all they are just a stream of bits, what
>> is it trying to recognize?.
>>
>> bill
> 
> Bill,
> 
>   Like we have all told you its checking for an ISO 9660 file system.
> If you have a Windows system the CDBURNERXP
> 
> https://cdburnerxp.se/en/download
> 
> (click on additional downloads and choose "without InstallCore")
> 
> works on many releases of windows. Its what I use on Windows/10 to burn 
> these images.

I would really prefer not going looking for even more Windows
garbage.  I would have thought that would be the norm here.

> 
> In other places I have seen suggestions that on Linux
> 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero

Brasero doesn't work for these files.  Neither did xfburn or
k3b.

> 
> or
> 
> wodim
> 
> https://linux.die.net/man/1/wodim
> 
> can be used to write the images to CD...

If you can decipher the 20 page long man page.  I could not.  And I
am not inclined to put much more effort into it.

> 
> As you have found changing the extension does not work. Any software 
> that checks, still checks for the ISO file system.

Funny that, while other people keep saying the two are exactly the same
with only the extension being different.

bill