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Received: from earth.execpc.com (earth.execpc.com [204.29.202.50]) by execpc.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA16533; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 14:53:44 -0500 Received: (from olaugh@localhost) by earth.execpc.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) id OAA24401; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 14:55:26 -0500 From: "Thomas O'Laughlin" <olaugh@earth.execpc.com> Message-Id: <199506251955.OAA24401@earth.execpc.com> Subject: Re: 1.99n and Mac CD-roms To: dan_g@ix.netcom.com (Dan Guisinger) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 14:55:26 -0500 (CDT) Cc: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <199506251628.JAA27520@ix4.ix.netcom.com> from "Dan Guisinger" at Jun 25, 95 09:28:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 810 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > > > > >Executor/DOS 1.99n will finally read from all of your dos volumes, so > >does anyone see any problem with reading Mac-formatted CD's? > > > > > Yeh. I see that as a problem. ARDI will have to have it check what > format the CD is in the CD-ROM. Then it can tell wether or not to read > it as DOS. The only problem I think there will be for is some of those > Hybrid CD-ROMS (Macintosh and DOS on the same CD-ROM) . They will need > a dialog box to ask which you want to read. > > -Dan Guisinger > Of course Executor will have to check what format the CD is, but it already does that for floppies, so how much more difficult would it be for CD's? What would be the effect on the speed of reading the CD's? I figure it would either be disgustingly slow, or even faster than HD access.