[AccessD] MSDN cds online

Don't feel bad - I'm down to 28.8 for some reason!

JJJooohhhnnn BBB...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Colby
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:38 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] MSDN cds online
>
>
> Thanks for this.  I am downloading now.
>
> For some odd reason I am only getting about 180 kbytes / sec today!  This
> could take awhile.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:25 PM
> To: AccessD
> Subject: [AccessD] MSDN cds online
>
>
> I saw this in Woody's Office Watch and I thought some of you might be
> interested...
>
> from WOW 8.18:
>
> 6. BURNING MSDN CDS
> Last month I told all of you programmers that Microsoft has
> posted the April
> 2003 MSDN CDs, and you can get all three of them free for the downloading.
> Those CDs include an enormous amount of information on Visual
> Studio 2003 -
> it's the required reference for those of you willing to make the leap from
> VBA to VB (or C) .NET.
>
> The CD images are at:
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/c/bdccea1b-96d9-4ad9-80
> 45-56619af
> 95835/qtr40enud1.img
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/c/bdccea1b-96d9-4ad9-80
> 45-56619af
> 95835/qtr40enud2.img
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/c/bdccea1b-96d9-4ad9-80
> 45-56619af
> 95835/qtr40enud3.img
>
> One teensy-tiny problem. The CDs are in ISO image format - so-called .IMG
> files - and you may have problems burning those files to a CD.
>
> WOWser TP writes: "To get the files to CD you need a program like
> "undisker"
> found at http://www.undisker.com. This software will open and view the
> contents much like standard Zip file software and write the
> contents to the
> CD drive. I only used the time limited shareware version of "undisker" but
> the software worked very well and I am considering the purchase
> of the full
> version.
>
> One thing you will need to know is the Volume label that needs to
> be on the
> CD. I am pretty sure that it is the name of the file without the
> extension.
> Without the correct volume name the CD's will not load."
>
>
> from WOW 8.19:
>
> 7. BURNING .IMG CDS
> Last week I told you about WOWser TP's travails trying to get the
> downloaded
> April 2003 MSDN CD images burned to CD. He used Undisker, and it worked
> fine.
>
> WOWser IW notes that he was able to burn the MSDN CDs by simply
> changing the
> file name extension from .IMG to .ISO, and then using Nero (on a Windows
> 2000 machine). WOWser RC did the same thing and had no problem
> with Windows
> XP's native file burner.
>
>
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