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From: ejbell@milton.acs.washington.edu (Eric Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Reading msdos optical disks with a mac
Message-ID: <3874@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 90 00:04:15 GMT
Reply-To: ejbell@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bell)
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Please don't flame me if:
	1) I'm asking a stupid question
	2) I'm in the wrong newsgroup

I'm a competent and experienced programmer (I know my shit) but I don't know
anything about optical disks or much about mac programming.

I am investigating the feasibility of a project that would read an existing 
database that is available on optical disk (High Sierra format) for computers
running ms-dos.  I want it to run on a mac.

Because the database is so large, (otherwise they wouldn't have put it on
optical disk, would they?) I can't just copy the files onto a hard drive
using something like apple file exchange.

I presume I need a program/routine that makes a dos-formatted optical disk
appear to be an "on-line" mac disk, or something that directly reads and
interprets the dos file-system and handles all of the file-system functions.

Is this commonly done and/or are there libraries/programs that handle this?
If so, what are they?

A final question.  Just out of curiosity, did the ms-dos file-system have to
be tweaked to deal with the large files you can create on an optical, or was
it able to handle it in its original design?

Thanks in advance, flames | /dev/null

Eric Bell