Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!midway!gargoyle!ddsw1!obdient!vpnet!ron From: ron@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ron Winograd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: CD ROMs Message-ID: <27605563-54a.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> Date: 8 Dec 90 02:55:06 GMT References: <36584@cup.portal.com> Lines: 15 I have had a lot of experience with CD-ROMS, I work with 5 different compainies. Anyway, here is the deal. Any CD will work on any CD-ROM, at least that I have seen. All that happens is the CD-ROM drive becomes D:, or any drive you specify. From there, it acts just like a hard drive, except you can't write to it of course. Most companies supply software on disks, and those access the drive. However, they do it no differently than a file accessing the hard drive. You can even take a dir of them, just dir d:. It is that simple. Some companies put the executable right on the disk with the data, so all you do to run them is switch to the D: drive, and run the exec like any other drive. CD-ROMS are just like huge hard drives that are unwritable, no different than that. Hope this helps -Ron Ron Winograd ron@vpnet.chi.il.us