how do I use a cdrw as an off line storage device under dos6.22? Some say you can't, a dealer who want to sell me one says yes, but it requires dos drivers not provided!

Perhaps the info is somewhere in these links? http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ http://www.ptltd.com/products/specs.html http://www.ptltd.com/products/wp.html http://www.cdpage.com/Compact_Disc_Variations/bootablecdarticle.htm http://www.ozemail.com/~rossstew/drs/bootcd.html http://nikko.simplenet.com/goldentime/bootcd01.htm http://www.fadden.com/doc/bootcd.txt http://www.os.rim.or.jp/~gigo/bootcd/index_e.html http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/2996/index.html http://www.heise.de/ct/Service/English.htm/99/11/206/ http://nikko.simplenet.com/goldentime/bootcd01.htm

Try: CD Recording Utilities (Golden Hawk) http://www.geocities.com/rlcgreen/disk2.htm unrated [added 12-08-98 updated 01-08-00] "...A set of useful CD-R applications for MSDOS. They support every major CDROM recorder..." The following freeware programs are included in the larger Golden Hawk commercial DOS distribution package: CD2CD.EXE- copy a single-track data CD from any supported CDROM drive to a CD recorder. The reader must be faster than the recorder. CD2FILE.EXE and FILE2CD.EXE- CD2FILE copies a CD from any supported CDROM drive to a hard drive image file which can then be written to a CD recorder using FILE2CD. DISK2CD.EXE- copies a SCSI harddrive block-by-block to a CD recorder. CDTOOLS.EXE-performs CDROM functions including "Disc Finalization", "Erase CD-RW Disc", "Table of Contents", etc.