Message-ID: <000301c26973$11b008e0$c03dfea9@atlantis>
From: "Matthias Paul" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM Compatibility
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:24:28 +0200
Organization: Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany
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On 2002-10-01, Joe da Silva wrote:

>> As I understand, this mean writing some information, which "closes"
>> disk's session.

Exactly. It's the "normal thing" you do (or the CD burner software does)
when the CD is finished, but some people "forget" to do it, when there
is still unused space on the disk.

> Yes, that sounds like it, but I don't have any experience with CD-R burners,
> so I don't know what exactly this means, nor whether a "non-finalized" disk
> is valid at all.

A non-finalized disk won't be readable by NWCDEX/MSCDEX and many other
tools, but it might still be readable by some software, in particular the CD burner
software itself. Once the CD is finalized you can no longer add/change any
contents (by adding more sessions), even if there was still free room before
you finalized it.

Greetings,

 Matthias