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Re: Recognizing CDs (DOS ones show!)



At 08:50 AM 6/21/96 GMT, Sean Gordon wrote:
>Did this ever work ?
>I was under the impression that Executor DOS used MSCDEX to access
>the CD-ROM, and if that is the case it is not going to let you
>see an HFS format Mac CD-ROM, simply because MSCDEX does not support
>that format.

No - it works perfectly, Executor does its own HFS stuff.  
(That's how Mac floppies and Mac SCSI HDs work too)

>Under Executor/Linux you can mount Mac HFS CD-ROMs if you have the 
>HFS File System module loaded.

You don't need the kernel-level driver unless you need to access 
HFS filesystems *outside* of Executor - again, it has built-in 
support for reading/writing HFS

Ian
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