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All three versions read 99Mb after the disk was ejected, indicating that WinXP must be caching the CD file

It did that to me when I used Alcohol to mount and unmount a virtual CD instead of ejecting a real CD. Apparently, Alcohol doesn't fully unmount an image with an open file handle.

When I switched to using a real CD, WinXP would prompt me to reinsert the disk when all cached data had been read. When I Cancel that dialog, Perl returns an error.

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