Formatting CDs

[Mike McCarty]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 21:42 +0000, Thufir wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:20:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>>I don't think anyone managed to be sure he understood your question. I
>>>know I didn't. Please define "format a CDRW".
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>>he wants to use it like a hdd.  write, read, remove, etc.
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>>-Thufir
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> 
> Well at least someone understands. Did no one ever format a floppy?

Of course. I've formatted likely thousands of them. However, there
is a well-defined meaning to "format a DVD-RW" and "format a DVD+RW".
There is not, AFAIK, any well-defined meaning to "format a CD".

Mike
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