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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!psuvax1!psuvm!mkk2
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:14:31 EDT
- From: <MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92251.121431MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Foreign CD-ROM disks on NeXT
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- I hope someone will fill in some gaps about CD-ROM for me and the rest of
- this group.
-
- As I understand it, the ISO CD-ROM format is some kind of hierarchical
- file system modeled after the one Unix offers (based on OS-9?). I presume
- that msdos, Mac, Unix, or NeXT must develop some kind of driver that translates
- to and from that format.
-
- Does this mean the data files on a CD-ROM will be available to NeXT's file
- viewer. For example, will the Great Works of Literature on a GWOL disk
- be readable? I know that the *software* for reading them will be useless. I
- am curious about the data.
-