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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:06:21 +0100
From: Utz Zarwell <UtzZarwell AT compuserve DOT de>
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: RE: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX
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da Silva, Joe wrote on 14 Feb 2001:

>not sure what you are saying with the last sentence
>> But a command line tool telling: _play whole CD_
>> is far away from a lightweight cdplayer ;-)

A command line tool that triggers playing of a complete audio cd 
is not a real (usefull) cdplayer.

>Please note that some versions of driver and/or redirector
>and/or CD-ROM will fail/refuse to play a CD, if they are told
>to play too many audio frames (that is, if the number of frames
>specified significantly exceeds the number available, from the
>given starting point on the CD). This effect is probably due to
>an arithmetic overflow in some driver and/or redirector code
>and/or CD-ROM firmware. Probably nothing to do with your
>particular problem - but I thought I should mention this, just
>in case.

Thats something I wasnt aware of.
I'll keep it in mind.

Thanks,
Utz

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