Well, the way you describe the operation (deleting and not reclaiming the
space) sounds logical to me.  This is similar to how my old "Direct Tape
Access" software used to work on my QIC-80 tape backup drive.

I guess I am the one doing something wrong here.  Hmm.  Worth a look
again.  Thanks for explaining.

At 08:14 AM 8/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Although I have never used Direct CD, it came with my CD Writer. The manual
>is quite specific that it works with both CD-R and CD-RW disks. Everything
>Cesar says is true. You can move, delete, rename, etc files on either. On a
>CD-RW, it performs the actual operations. On a CD-R deleted files are made
>invisible and the disk space is lost. Now that I have read the manual, it
>seems worth a try. Check out the web site www.adeptec.com  for more details.
>
>Karl Gottshalk

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