Hi, why don't you create a RAM disk? Then copy your files onto the RAM disk. Gene >Hi, >I know this is off-topic, but I know this can be done under Linux using the >Loopback device, so I'm wondering if a hopefully free and easy equivalent >exists under Win32 systems. I don't need encryption so products like >Bestcrypt and Scramdisk seem like overkill to me. Here's my problem. >I have 3.6 gigabytes of MP3 files in many subdirectories under one main >directory, which I wish to burn to DVD. Unfortunately, many of the >filenames and/or pathnames are too long for the UDF or Joliet filesystems >used on CD's and DVD's. >My solution. >If I could make a Fat32 filesystem in a file on my Windows machine and mount >it as a virtual drive, I could then copy the MP3s over to this virtual >filesystem. Then I could burn that and the tool to mount it onto a DVD. If >forced to use encryption software I'd put in a really dumb, easily guessable >password and include a text file on the DVD which contains the password, in >case I ever forgot it. Security isn't an issue here, so once again products >like Bestcrypt seem like overkill. Does anybody know of an equivalent of >/dev/loop for Windows? What I'm wanting to do is to make, say, a FAT32 >filesystem in c:\myfat32.dsk, let's say. Then use some tool to mount that >as, say, drive X:. >Any help would be greatly appreciated! >Thanks, >Jayson. > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
