Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd <adamvaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Cunning wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 14:36, Kevanf1 wrote:
>  
>
> > Perhaps it's a regional thing but I've never heard it called 'fixate'
> > before.  Finalise, yes...  It means the same thing though :-)
> >    
> Xcdroast uses the term fixate, as does, I believe, cdrecord (which is
> used by xcdroast, anyway, as far as I know). I've never considered it a
> regional thing, but if it is, perhaps that's the term used in Germany
> where the author of cdrecord (Joerg Schilling) is from.
>  
Either term describes the action well. You are closing the filesystem so 
you will not be able to add additional files. Some other CD burners had 
advanced software to allow punchin and recovery of fragged CDs but I 
have yet to see it migrated from Windows to Linux.

Adam