David Boddington wrote: <snipped>

I'm not sure what the big deal is with the FOTD CD, that it should take up huge amounts of your time. Don't you simply drag and drop all the files you wish to include on to your CD burner desktop icon, and then make copies?

Yes, when the files are ready, that is what I shall do. The hold-up lies in getting the files ready. The pre-press work, you might say. The problem is that I saved all my sent mail in huge monthly files, which average about 500kb in size and contain about 300 letters each. The FOTD's must be found amidst the trash and gathered into new orderly files. A second hold-up is the time required to re-render the SF5 and SF7 images in the standard screen-filling 800x600x256 SF6 size. Luckily, most images render in under 1/2 hour, and I have several machines to handle the task. Finally, I intend on including a considerable amount of new material on the CD, such as a number of short stories I have written over the past 10 years or so, plus pictures of life around Fractal Central, including of course, pictures of the fractal cats. And all this must be done in addition to my day-to-day graphic design work. So be patient, the CD will arrive, and the FOTD will resume on a daily basis in the right fractal time. Jim M.