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Re: Using Mac CD-ROMs



Windows 95 does NOT use MSCDEX.
If you ARE using it under Win95, or any other CDROM (CDMKE401.SYS) or sound
card drivers, etc. just REM them from your CONFIG.SYS and things will work a
LOT better!

Go for it!
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>Mark J.P. Vergeer wrote:
>> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> >I think you need a SCSI CD-ROM drive to look at/use Mac CD-ROMs.
>> I was able to recognize dual format pc/mac formatted cd-roms
>> with 1.99o I believe. But with 1.99p or Q this was not possible.
>> This while I have the same panasonic 652b cd-rom drive connected to my
>> soundblaster.
>> Greetz.
>-snip-
>
>I was unable to read a couple of Mac CD-ROM's on my PC when I was
>running under DOS/WIN95 but after I converted to Linux I could read both
>of the disks without having to mount them.  Maybe there is a problem
>with MSCDEX and WIN/95's cd drivers, that's if executor even uses them.
>
>Chris
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