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- From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
- Subject: Re: CD Roms readable on a PC ?
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:44:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.144410.15798@zds-oem.zds.com>
- References: <jechawke.722092383@unix2.tcd.ie> <1992Nov19.001241.19587@nwnexus.WA.COM> <41260@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- In article <41260@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> jfriesne@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner!) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.001241.19587@nwnexus.WA.COM> pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne) writes:
- >
- >>I know somebody with exactly the same setup who tried it. Basically, you
- >>can read the disk just fine, but ms-dog's file system pukes on the
- >>filenames. It can only handle 11 characters (8 in the name and 3 in the
- >>extention), and no spaces. !f you could run an operating system on the
- >>ms-dog machine that could cope with the filenames, it would probably
- >>work.
- >>Perhaps OS/2??
-
- >Just out of curiosity, what does MS-DOS do when you try to read
- >a directory? Does it hang, or say "directory error", or what?
-
- It just lops off the extended file name. Thus you only see the
- first eight characters. At least thats what it does for me.
-
- PC- 486 running MS-DOS
- SCSI card- Adaptec 1540
- CD ROM- Toshiba XM3301B
- CD Disk- Hypermedia Concepts Fish Disk
- Walnut Creek ab20 disk
-
- Works for me...
-
- >Jeremy
-
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