[Cube] Re: LGH drive

[J.C. Webber III]

TonVanHest wrote:
> Op 28-dec-04 om 15:44 heeft Gary Lauterback het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > Wahoo!  Glad to hear its working.  May I ask, what is "patchburn?"
> 
> Patchburn does 2 things:
> 
> 1.  It places two tiny files in your homedirectory. This activates an 
> unknown feature by which you are able to create a.DMG instead of 
> writing to real DVD. Also it enables you to choose the DVD burner if 
> there are more than one.
> 
> 2.  It makes a profile of any burner on your system and places this in 
> some system directory making OS X think it is an accepted drive.

I understand #2, but what is the benefit of providing the capabilities
in #1?  If you can now, thanks to patchburn, burn to your external DVD
drive, why would you want/need to create a .DMG file?

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