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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CD-ROM and the Amiga
Message-ID: <2948@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 3 Jul 90 12:47:19 GMT
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peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>I agree that it would be a minor effort to access the PC-like filesystem
>of such a CD-ROM disk, in fact that should be manageable. But as I said,
>this is not already the whole job.

Most CDs have an ISO standard file system on them. This way, you can read
files and directories and whatever on any kind of computer. There are
ISO drivers for the ST, PC and Mac PC CD-ROM drives. You are right,
however, in pointing out that the contents of the files on those CDs
are completely application-dependent. But it's very easy to read
standard ASCII files from a CD-ROM. 

By the way: The ISO standard file system for CD-ROMs is not "PC-like".
It has elements of VMS, Unix and PC file systems, but is incompatible
with anyone of these.

>-- 
>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel      //     E-Mail to 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany      \X/      rutgers!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

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