Writing to DVD as if it were a floppy (packing writing)

I am a pc user switching to mac...
In windows, I used a program from Nero that allowed me to write to a DVD as if it were a floppy (ie drag and drop). I seem to remember is was called packet writing. Is there similar capability in Mac? Is it native or do I need a 3rd party app?
Thanks
bob

What is it you really want to do? Personally, I use a thumb drive exactly the way one used to use floppies. Plug it in, drag files to it, eject it. Later on you plug it in again and drag more files to it and delete files from it you no longer need. Of course, while they are pretty cheap these days (I've seen 1GB thumbs for $6), if you are giving away the disks to someone else this wouldn't be the best idea, which is why it would help to know what you are doing.
Both Windows and Mac programs use a bit of trickery to add files to a burnable disk, and the trickery is not really compatible between the platforms, so if you want to share files by way of disks between a Mac and Windows computer a FAT32 formatted drive is the better option. So, again, what is it you are trying to do?
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