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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac software for reading "generic" CD-ROMS?
Message-ID: <53791@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 91 12:23:31 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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fdm@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Frank D. Malczewski) writes:

>Assume that I have an Apple CD player/Apple driver software, and that I want
>to purchase a CD-ROM that is in one of the standard formats supported by
>the driver software (e.g., High Sierra).  Further, assume that the CD-ROM
>does not come with any software for the Mac to read its files, which are
>presumably just basic text files.

>Is there any software for the Mac (preferably free :-) that would allow
>me to access the files?  If so, where might these be available?

When you got the driver for the AppleCD SC drive, you also received four
files:
	Foreign File Access
	High Sierra File Access
	ISO 9660 File Access
	Audio CD Access
Assuming those are installed correctly (all in your System Folder under
System 6.x, Foreign File Access in your Extensions folder under System
7) then you have access to any High Sierra or ISO 9660 formatted CD.
All the files on the CD are treated as text, unless the CD has been
mastered with Apple's Extensions to ISO 9660.

You can read them into a word processor, or into MPW, or whatever you
want to do.  If the files are MS-DOS text files, they'll have the extra
CR character at the end of each line (Mac uses just LF as end of line,
DOS uses CR/LF, Unix uses CR.)

If you're writing your own program, just use standard file system calls.
No special CD-ROM driver calls are necessary.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"