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- From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How to mount ISO and HSG CD-ROM's on (Open)VMS?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.123307.5936@ais.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 12:33:06 GMT
- References: <7BO0SNI@netmbx.netmbx.de> <11JAN199309032147@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
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- In article <11JAN199309032147@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>, rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
- > In article <7BO0SNI@netmbx.netmbx.de>, weis@netmbx.netmbx.de (Dietmar Weis) writes...
- >>In Ultrix you have to specify a kernel option and a pseudo-device
- >>in order to mount those CD's. But how can I do it on VAX/VMS and
- >>AXP/OpenVMS?
- >>MOUNT/FOREIGN of course does not work.
- >
- > Prior to VMS 6.0, the ACP for mounting these CDs ships only in the Infoserver
- > kit, if you have the Infoserver kit look for something like F11CD. The mount
- > command will probably require the /PROCESSOR=filespec qualifier to choose the
- > correct ACP. 6.0 is supposed to ship with the ACP "in there", i.e. you won't
- > need the Infoserver kit.
-
- This is true, however the Infoserver kit is included in the CONDIST
- CD-ROM set. There is also a modified version of MOUNT, which is
- installed on the system as CD_MOUNT, which uses the qualifier /MEDIA=CD
- to mount an ISO 9660 disk; there is also a qualifier /UNDEFINED which
- determines the treatment of files which don't have any format definitions
- on the CD-ROM. This qualifier is useful for reading the UNIX-style
- STREAM-LF type files or the MS-DOS STREAM-CRLF type files reasonably
- transparently under VMS. (Aggravated aside: Why can't the world agree
- on what a STREAM-type file looks like, at least when it's on a CD-ROM,
- so that this kind of hack wouldn't be necessary?)
-
- The best part is that you don't need any additional license PAK's to
- be able to use the ISO 9660 ACP; there's just a little saveset that
- you can restore in the Infoserver kit that gives you the additional
- ACP and DCL syntax (There's also a new version of DUMP that understands
- something about the on-disk structure of the ISO-9660 format). All the
- other commands work like you'd expect on any other disk -- COPY, TYPE,
- etc. It looks very much like a read-only ODS-2 disk.
-
- If you have a CD-ROM reader, the CONDIST is an excellent investment --
- current distributions of almost all the common layered products, and
- online documentation as well (well, yeah, it's in Bookreader format,
- but if you have even one Xterminal it can be useful to be able to find
- things on it that have been `borrowed' from the regular doc set or that
- are for a product that you don't have but need information about).
-
- Bruce C. Wright
-