Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bionet!UH.EDU!Davison From: Davison@UH.EDU (Dan Davison) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: VAX ISO-9660 CD-ROM support Message-ID: <9105040329.AA02029@Menudo.UH.EDU> Date: 4 May 91 03:29:38 GMT References: Sender: daemon@genbank.bio.net Lines: 25 Dave Kristofferson said: > > 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? > 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. Actually, this is true, as far as it goes. The DEC software on CD is distributed with a VMS file system format so that you can do COPY and DIR and other VMS-ish things to one's heart's content. (Most of the DEC software on site license here at UH is mounted on a set of CD-ROM drives). So yes, if you want to read DEC's CD-ROMS you need the DEC driver, but if you want ISO CD reading, the JPL or Stockwell drivers will work fine and are just the right price. I will check on the re-distribution of the JPL drivers and if they are available I will put them on the UH Gene-server and send them to the FTP sites and EMBL. dan -- dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to myself.