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Subject: Re: Complete EGTBs on 4 CDs?

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 12:44:41 12/09/01

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On December 09, 2001 at 15:39:18, Edward Seid wrote:

>On December 09, 2001 at 12:37:17, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>If you take a look at the official CA Site  you can see that they
>>have two different offers.
>>One with all EGTBS on 9! CDs and an offer with 'typical' (3-5 men)
>>EGTBS on 4 CDs which is correct.
>>
>>http://store.convekta.com/shop_model.asp?gid=121&sView=Catalog
>
>Speaking of the Convekta offering, I believe that they are engaged in false
>advertising also.  Their COMPLETE set is "9 CDs of 700 MB ".  Assuming that each
>CD is filled to the max, that yields 9x700 = 6.3 GB worth of data, which is less
>than the 7+ GB that is taken up on my hard disk by the truly complete 3/4/5 man
>EGTBs, which I downloaded from Hyatt's FTP.  As a confirmation, the
>comprehensive review by Bob Pawalek at
>http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rjpawlak/reviews/convekta_nalimov.html does not
>list all of the 5-man combinations.
>
>I wonder how many people have bought Convekta's 9 CD set thinking that it was
>complete when actually it is not.
>
>I plan to burn my 3/4/5 man EGTB collection onto CD and believe that a truly
>complete set would take 11 CDs.  BTW, has anyone done this?  If so, how did you
>split up the EBTBs to fit on as few CDs as possible?

U can give "Burn to the Brim" programa try:

http://bttb.cdmediaworld.com/



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