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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.
..snip snip snip...
I don't know about the MSCDEX problem itself, but the information about
building DOS boot disk images is in the OS/2 (or OS/2 Warp) Command Reference
(depending on version) in the Information folder, under VMDISK: have a look
under 'OS/2 Commands by Name'.
Cheers, Alex Newman
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