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- Executor 2 can read Mac formatted CD-ROMs, but it needs a way to read
- raw CD-ROM sectors to do so.
-
- If your computer has a SCSI CD-ROM and you have ASPI drivers
- installed, Executor should be able to use them to read Mac formatted
- CD-ROMs.
-
- If not, Executor needs to use the 16-bit version of the Microsoft
- CD-ROM Extensions to read raw CD-ROM extensions. That means that if
- you're running Windows 3.x, you'll need to install MSCDEX.
-
- If you're running Windows '95, you'll need to adjust your
- configuration so that you use the 16-bit version of MSCDEX (at least
- when you're running Executor), instead of the 32-bit version.
-
- The easiest way to configure your system is to have a Windows Guru do
- it for you. If you explain that Executor/DOS needs ASPI drivers or
- the old version of MSCDEX, a knowledgeable Windows person can probably
- examine your system and make the mods to your config.sys and
- autoexec.bat to do the right thing.
-
- If you don't have someone you can lean on, you may be able to get
- technical support from wherever you purchased your PC, or if that
- doesn't help, the company that made your CD-ROM drive may be able to
- help you out.
-
- The problem is that installing the old version of MSCDEX is a
- different process on different types of machines. For instance, on
- our Micron Millennia Transport laptop, we needed to add this line to
- C:\CONFIG.SYS
-
- DEVICE=C:\CDROM\SJCDAPI.SYS /D:MSCD000
-
- and then we needed to add this line to C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /M:40 /L:E
-
- The first line is responsible for loading the 16-bit CD-ROM driver,
- and that's the line that varies from system to system. The problem is
- that you need to know where your 16-bit CD-ROM driver is, and
- sometimes it can be hard to find. The "/D:MSCD000" portion of the
- DEVICE line tells DOS/Windows that the device driver will be known as
- "MSCD000".
-
- The second line actually loads MSCDEX, and says to look for the device
- driver "MSCD000", which we installed via the first line. The "/M:40"
- portion of the line asks DOS/Windows to buffer 40 blocks, and the
- "/L:E" portion tells DOS/Windows that we want the device to be logical
- disk "E:". In general, you can use the exact same MSCDEX line in your
- autoexec.bat as we have above, as long as you have the right 16-bit
- CD-ROM driver loaded in your config.sys file.
-
- NOTE: Even with those two lines added, we have to reboot our Micron
- Millennia Transport into MS-DOS mode before Executor can access Mac
- formatted CD-ROMs. You may also experience this restriction.
-
- This configuration problem will go away once Executor has been
- rewritten to be a Win32 program instead of a DOS program.
-
- If Executor 2 is telling you to read this file, and you'd prefer that
- it stop telling you about it, you can rename this file and Executor
- will stop.
-