Re: lynx-dev lynx on a Shareware-CD-ROM? (fwd)

[Bela Lubkin]

David Combs wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 08:36:08AM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> > There are perfectly good CD mastering programs (e.g. mkisofs 12b4 and 
> > probably
> > b5, for Unix like systems) that can create CDs which will read with 8.3
> > names on baseline ISO 9660 systems and long filenames on systems with 
> > either Joliet or Rock Ridge extension support (one CD supporting both).

> Just how Do people write these cd's?  Does gnu provide something?

A number of free software programs exist for the dual tasks of creating
filesystem images in the appropriate formats; and writing them to CD
media.  For instance, look for `mkisofs` and `cdrecord`.

> I imagine that lots of us on this list could use some education
> on this new and compact way of sending out software, and would
> be interested in tutorial or whatever on the hardware and SOFTWARE
> needed for doing this.

I imagine there are tens of thousands of topics that various subsets of
the people on this list would be interested in -- in some *other* venue.
*This* list is about Lynx and its ongoing development.  The people on
the list are here for that purpose alone.  Any off-topic subject will be
of interest to some people, but not others, and thus degrades the
overall utility of the list.  I could start talking about my experiences
planting apple trees last weekend; I'm sure there are a number of people
who would be fascinated.  But this is the wrong place.

> And, also, is there a newsgroup dealing with this stuff (that PLUS
> whatever tutorial / education you can provide yourself to us).

Questions like this are easily answered with a few seconds' use of a web
search engine -- several of which can be found on the main Lynx help
page.

>Bela<