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From: huebner@aero.aero.org (Robert E. Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is CDTV CD ROM drive compatible?
Message-ID: <94076@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 11 Dec 90 16:26:09 GMT
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In article <90345.021910R38@psuvm.psu.edu>, R38@psuvm.psu.edu (Me!!) writes:
|> CDTV is compatible with CDROMs that are of the ISO-9660 standard
|> format.  Look for that designation on the label.

Of course, by saying this you give the impression that I can go out and
purchase any old ISO-9660 or High Sierra format CD (CDTV supports both,
so does the Xetex, I believe) and pop it in.  This is not true unless
you have proper retrieval software to get the information off the disk and
display/execute it.

My impression of this is- its sort of like putting an MS-DOS disk in your
Amiga using MSH:  Sure, you can see the filenames, but without additional
software you cannot view the GIFs or execute a program.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Robert Huebner		huebner@aerospace.aero.org
			The Aerospace Corporation
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