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- SHSUCDHD Version 1.0
- CDCACHER Version 4.0
- (c) John H. McCoy, 1995
- Sam Houston St. Univ., TX 77341-2206
-
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-
- Warning!!!!
-
- Use at your own risk. Both SHSUCDHD and CDCACHER use features of DOS
- that are undocumented.
-
- SHSUCDHD will not work with either Microsoft's or IBM's MSCDEX programs.
- Your system will crash if you try it. MSCDEX trashes itself on an
- unexpected INT2F broadcast call that it should ignore.
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-
- SHSUCDHD is an experimental CD rom driver which loads with the name SHSU-CDH
- and makes up to 5 CD ROM images which have been cached to hard disk appear as
- devices 0 through 4.
-
- CDCACHER makes cached images of ISO9660 or High Seria format CD ROMS for use
- by either the network CD ROM server program SHSUSERV or the pseudo CD ROM
- driver SHSUCDHD. CD ROMs are ususally large and it takes a while. It will
- run in an OS2 DOS window while you do something else.
-
- CDHD has been used under DOS 4.0 and later and WIN 3.1 on a non-networked
- system using cache files on the local drive, on a Novell client using VLMs
- with the cache files on a netware server and on a NT client with the cache
- files on a NT server. It cannot be used to access cached images from a
- network on a Novell NET(x) shell client. It may work with other networks
- which use a real mode re-director for network access but I have not tested it.
-
- SHSUCDX must be used if a program requires the cdrom extensions. CDHD will
- not work with either Microsoft's or IBM's MSCDEX. It will crash the system.
-
-
- The command to run SHSUCDHD is:
-
- SHSUCDHD [/F:imagepathname1 [/F:imagepathname2 ...]] [/U] [/?]
-
- up to five cache image files may be specified
-
- example: SHSUCDHD /F:.\CD.IMG
- SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDH
-
- uses the cache file CD.IMG in the current directory and assigns it
- the next available drive letter
-
- example: SHSUCDHD /F:CD0.IMG /F:N:\CD1.IMG
- SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDH,E
-
- uses the cache file CD0.IMG in the current directory append path and
- CD1.IMG from the N drive and assigns the next available drive letters
- beginning with letter E ( probably E and F)
-
- example: SHSUCDX /U
- SHSUCDHD /U
-
- unloads SHSUCDX then SHSUCDHD from memory
-
- The command to run CDCACHER is:
-
- CDCACHER [cd driver name] [/?]
-
- cd driver name is the name of the CD driver where the CD ROM being
- cached is located. If none is specified MSCD001 is assumed.
- If the specified driver is not found the user is given the
- opportunity to interactively edit the driver name.
-
- example: CDCACHER
-
- starts CDCACHER using the default driver name MSCD001
-
- example: CDCACHER SHSU-CDN
-
- starts CDCACHER using the driver name SHSU-CDN.
-
-
- To see if SHSUCDHD will work on your system.
-
- Unzip all files into the same directory.
-
- Run SHSUCDHD by entering SHSUCDHD /F:SHSUDRV1.IMG{Enter}
-
- Run SHSUCDX by entering SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDH and note the CD drive letter
-
- Run the HELLO program from the CD by entering drive:\HELLO\HELLO where
- drive is the drive letter noted in the previous step
-
- If the above works, then unload SHSUCDX and SHSUCDHD. Copy the cache image
- file SHSUDRV1.IMG to your network file server.
-
- Run SHSUCDHD by entering CDHD /F:path\SHSUDRV1.IMG where path is the network path.
-
- Run SHSUCDX by entering SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDH and note the CD drive letter
-
- Run the HELLO program from the CD by entering drive:\HELLO\HELLO where
- drive is the drive letter noted in the previous step
-
- If this works then SHSUCDHD is probably compatable with your system. Use
- CDCACHER to make cache images of your CD.
-
-
-
- SHSUCDHD and CDCACHER are a copyright reserved, free use program.
-
- Use at your own risk.
-
- Time permitting, an attempt will be made to fix problems that are reported
- to CSC_JHM@SHSU.EDU.
-
- (c)John H. McCoy, 1995, Sam Houston St. Univ., TX 77341-2206