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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CD-ROMs in Print:  Good news and bad news
Message-ID: <767@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 07:21:03 GMT
References: <22817@cup.portal.com>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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From article <22817@cup.portal.com>, by Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com:
[Discussion of CD-ROMS in Print and how most of them are IBM compatible
deleted.]

     I'm not vary familiar with CD-ROMS.  Does the fact they are
IBM-compatible mean their data adheres to the MS-DOS format?  If so, does
that mean the data on the CD-ROMS could be accessed on an Amiga with an
MS-DOS file system mounted?  Granted programs on the CD wouldn't be of any
use, but it might be a lot easier for a publisher to port a text searching
program to the Amiga format than to port all his data.  The program could
be distributed on an AmigaDOS floppy.  If something like Cross-DOS could
read IBM-compatible CD-ROMS on the Amiga it would make a lot of machine
readable data available to us.

     Given the vast amount of data stored in MS-DOS format wouldn't it be a
big advantage if the Amiga could read it painlessly?  Wouldn't the ability
to read MS-DOS data be a nice feature to have built in to the operating
system?

--Fabbian Dufoe
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  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
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