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Hello, I apologize that I forgot to mention that it works on my friend's dvd drive, which is running on a xp box. I also tried putting into my external dvd-writer and it seems to read it okay. Thanks.

Hello, I have a Matshita CD-RW/DVD-ROM CW-8121 for my G4 PB (10.3.2) and whenever I put a DVD+R that has data in there, it does not mount, instead the DVD+R just automatically ejects. Does anyone know a way to resolve this issue. Thank you. :p

Hi, Can someone suggest me a good client and server for vnc. Thanks!

hm... i seem to fix the problem by using toast 5.2, but I am now wondering how toast was able to allow me to use the full memory space of my 700 mb cd, since you just mention it is from the formatting of the os, doesn't the software(toast) need to obey the size reported from the os?

yea, I just use the finder, just downloaded roxio toast, maybe i'll give that a try and see what happens. But, does anyone know why the os understates the memory size, is it because of byte alignment restriction within the os or is it something else. Thanks!

Hi, I apologize if this is a dumb question... :( Whenever I put a blank 700mb cd in my PB G4, it always shows that I have only 660 mb free, why's that? My burn is a Matshita CD-RW CW-8121, if that matters. Thank you!

got E Pluribus Unum, but the only option I see was merge, no split :-( if there is a split in that program, can you direct me the location? Thanks.

Hi, I have some *.avi and *.ogm movies, but are too big to put into a cd, and was wondering if there are any unix application out there that can split an *.avi and *.ogm into smaller chunks so it can fit into a cd. Also, I tried using the split command on one of my avi file, it...

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I think .ace file is similar to a .zip and .rar file... basically I this *.ace file and I need to decompress it. Thanks!

Hi, does anyone know if there is an unix command that can extract .ace files. Thank you!

Hi, I have downloaded rar and stored under /application and I was wondering how can I set a path variable where I can invoke rar anywhere, and I am using bash if that makes a difference. Thank you!

Does anyone know what "~" means in a regular expression? Thankx.

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Hi, I just downloaded/installed lynx in my os x. But I cannot make the application run. When I type: bash-2.05a$ lynx bash: lynx: command not found So I tried this: bash-2.05a$ open -a lynx 2003-05-20 13:33:52.720 open[4793] Couldn't launch application: lynx I know...