Information in this page updated: 07 Jan 96
There is a program called CD-Write. As the name may falsely suggest, the program can not write to a CD, this is physically impossible. But the disk is mounted through a special filesystem enhancer that redirects write attemts to a buffer on your harddisks.
If you read from the CD the file(s) in the buffer are first searched, and then the real CD. So through the eyes of this new device it looks like you can suddenly write to your CD-ROM drive.
Be carefull, in extreme conditions the buffer can grow to a full 700MB in size!
Due to the special nature of the CDs as read-only media, it is often not possible to access one from a BBS. If you open a directory for public use, normally the BBS persists of writing several service files to that location. This opviously does not work for a CD. Only CD-Write can be at help for an unwilling BBS program. But every modern BBS has an option to access a CD, even better if the CD is "BBS-Ready" and allready carries FILES.BBS files.