[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/27/19 12:25 PM, David Wade wrote:
> On 27/01/2019 16:55, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 1/27/19 11:03 AM, Dennis Boone wrote:
>>>   > 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?.
>>>
>>> I'd guess they're Files-11 filesystems, not ISO9660 filesystems,
>>> so they don't look like something the nannyware expects, and it
>>> tries to "help".
>>>
>>> Have you tried the command line tools cdrecord or wodim?
>>
>> cdrecord just points to wodim and wodim has 20 page long man
>> page that makes little if any sense.  But then, that's why
>> they made GUI apps.  No one can understand this stuff and it
>> will make more coasters than the GUI programs.
> 
> According to
> 
> http://avitech.com.au/?p=605
> 
> all you need is a simple command

You would never figure that out from the documentation.  :-)

> 
> wodim dev=/dev/sr0 vms061-1.iso
> 
> where the "dev" points to your CD writer and the ".iso" file is the 
> image to be written

And now we are back to the original problem.  It's not a .iso file.
So what would it do?  Make another coaster?

bill