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From: kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Re: VAX ISO-9660 CD-ROM support
Message-ID: <CMM.0.88.673327049.kristoff@genbank.bio.net>
Date: 4 May 91 03:17:29 GMT
Sender: kristoff@genbank.bio.net
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> I haven't seen the GenBank CD, but the JPL drivers work fine on the
> VAX and let me look at almost any CD -- am I missing something here?
> Also, there is another excellent driver, free, on the EMBL and UH
> servers, by the great biohacker Peter Stockwell. It's called CD-ACCESS
> in the VMS sections.  I assume the FTP sites have it also.
> 
> If I am mis-understanding something here, please let me know!
> 
> dan


Dan,

	I personally spend about 10 hours per year on VMS systems, but
I was led to believe that DEC was using VAX drivers that favored a
proprietary format and caused problems reading ISO 9660 CDs.  I would
be delighted to learn that I am wrong in this impression.

Dave