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From: unierik@uts.uni-c.dk (Erik Bertelsen)
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: <UNIERIK.91Jun10094721@uts.uni-c.dk>
Date: 10 Jun 91 09:47:21 GMT
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In-Reply-To: blob@Apple.COM's message of 8 Jun 91 12: 23:31 GMT


.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.
.
Yes Foreign File Access and ISO 9660 will give you access to all the
data on the CD-ROM as byte stream files which you can read just like
any other files.

You may however also consider Apple File Exchange (part of Macintosh
system software) to convert the files to Macintosh format. This can be
helpful if you need to see your text with proper new-line representation
or when you have to translate text using DOS character set to use the
Macintosh character set.

regards
Erik Bertelsen
UNI-C, The Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education.