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- To: Sean Gordon <"sean.gordon"@stdavids.ncr.com>, executor@ardi.com
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- From: Ian Viemeister <vmeister@ios.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:17:24 -0400
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- 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)
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- >Under Executor/Linux you can mount Mac HFS CD-ROMs if you have the
- >HFS File System module loaded.
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- 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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- http://styx.ios.com/~vmeister/
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