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   Re: how do I create an ISO file?   
   23 Feb 07 12:39:54   
   
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   From: Hadron    
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   Subject: Re: how do I create an ISO file?   
   Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:39:54 +0100   
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   > * Hadron wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
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   >> SINNER  writes:   
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   >>> * Hadron wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >>>   
   >>>> To "burn" implicitly means to, well, "burn". e.g laser to cd media.   
   >>>   
   >>> Since we are being pedants, this is not true if you are writing to RW   
   >>> CD/DVD media even though you are applying a laser, the data is   
   >>> written not    
   >>    
   >> It is written by burning into the media. Without being pedantic. How   
   >> else do you think it is "written"? We could say "melted" but we dont -   
   >> the word used is "burned".   
   >>    
   >>> burned since burned implicitly means  A disc is "burned," because   
   >>> once recorded, it cannot be erased and rewritten.   
   >>    
   >> Don't agree. That is one incorrect interpretation of what the word   
   >> means in the context of CD/DVD media. The "burning" process references   
   >> the laser burning into the material, not it "destroying" the medium.   
   >>    
   >   
   > I just read the definition, you figure out why they say that your    
   > definition is a misconception.   
      
   I dont need to : I have never known *anyone* refer to recording on a   
   cd/dvd as anything other than burning.   
      
   But thats not the point - are you still saying that it makes perfect   
   sense to say "Burn ISO" when you are creating an ISO image on a hard   
   drive from the removable media original?   
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