Hi Folks:

I posted the following to the Firebird Support
group, and Helen told me to post here.

Developing on XP Home, VS 2008 Pro WIN32, no MFC.
I'm developing in C++.

Gbak works great. It backs up and restores to
files on my PC as documented.

The dialog my application opens for backup and
recovery asks the user to identify the file to use
as the destination for the backup or the source of
the recovery.

The problem happens when the user selects to
backup to a DVD or CD.

A DVD or CD is different from other drives, for
one thing it has no file system until something is
burned into it.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to confront
this issue, and I'm wondering if kind sole can
show me the proper approach to write files to the
CD in a way that will be transparent, or as easy
as possible, to the user of the application.

I see there is something called the "Image
Mastering API", which seems to address writing
to a CD and, with version 2, a DVD. I'd like
to know if this is the correct approach to
write gbak files to the CD.

Thanks
Larry