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- From: david@aim1.aztec.co.za (David Mason)
- Subject: Re: What approach to CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <david.725096198@aim1>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:36:38 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.213311.6149@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au> <1992Dec23.011105.9612@isc-br.isc-br.com>
- Organization: Aztec Information Management
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- ricks@odin.isc-br.com (Rick Schaeffer) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec22.213311.6149@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au> nigel@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Nigel Harwood) writes:
- >>I'm in a bit of a quandry about how to decide on a CD-ROM approach.
- >>I have a 486 ESIX UNIX system with a SCSI HDD which I also use for DOS.
- >>I would like to get a CD-ROM which I can use under Windows 3.1 but
- >>also under UNIX for PD software etc.
-
- >As for Unix, I'm not aware that there
- >is a File System Driver available for CD-ROM. You can access the actual drive as
- >a "raw" SCSI device but I doubt that's what you want. There was a posting
- >a while back with a set of utilities that can read ISO9660 compatible CDROMs
- >but what is really neaded is an SVR4 Virtual File System for the ISO9660
- >standard.
-
- The software referred to allows one to do "dir" and cp from the CD. It
- works fine, but is not great for non-technical users. This is an unfortunate
- limitation of SVR4, worsened by the fact that CD-ROMs work with SCO.
-
- I have a copy of the software if anybody wants it.
- --
- David Mason, Unix system support.
- Aztec Information Management, Cape Town, South Africa.
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