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Re: mac/iso hybrid CDs




>Fred et al,
>
>>Why cant you use the thing in OS/2 to make an image of a boot disk, then 
>>run it in a window. I have done it once. Make a DOS 6 boot disk with the 
>>CD-rom driver and MSCDEX.EXE and then make the disk image of it for OS/2.
>>I cant recall how it was done...
>>
>>On 2 Jan 1996, Doug Wing wrote:
>>
>>> That is correct for people running MSDOS, but it does not help the large 
>>> gathering of OS/2 users.  MSCDEX will not run under OS/2 as the CD
reconition 
>>> is automatically passed on to all DOS sessions.  I (and possible) the 
>>> original author of this thread can read DOS CD's under Executor, but the
Mac 
>>> formats can not be read.  I myself am looking for a solution to this
problem.
>

I know this is getting off the topic of Executor, but there is a version of
MSCDEX that will work in an OS/2 Dos box. It was especially patched to do
so. I used it for a time before I replaced my CD-ROM with a faster one,
which OS/2 had drivers for. So there is no need to use a DOS 6 boot disk to
read the CD files. I still have the said MSCDEX if anyone wants a copy.

Bye....
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