> Unfortunately DirectCD is about as unstandard as you can get

But it does claim to close a CD in ISO 9660 format. Surely the
condition of the CD before then is irrelevant ?

As I said, an open CD is readable only in the burning drive, so I
wouldn't expect my friend to be able to read an open CD (even
I can't if it's in the wrong drive), yet of course once the disk is
closed any PC can read it

> It's best to use a REAL burning program to make discs readable
> in machines other then your own
>
> Oh, and BTW, DirectCD trashed quite a few of my disks a couple
> years ago, I will NEVER be touching that software again. Perhaps
> they've improved, I don't know, nor care. TTYL

Well, not coming in to bat for DirectCD, I really don't recall any
problems at all with it in around 5 years on this machine and many
hundreds of disks, both data and music. Those CDs get used on
this machine and a variety of other PCs. I did have some trouble
with Nero on this PC, although it seems to be fine on the other one.
So apart from this one (admittedly unresolved) problem with a Mac,
which doesn't especially worry me, I'm happy with my burning set-up

Experience has taught me that sometimes s/w and h/w simply don't
see eye to eye even though there's no apparent reason for them not
to

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