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From: kcy@meaddata.com (Cheong Yu)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macintosh use of dos/windows cd-roms
Date: 23 May 1994 16:58:56 GMT
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In article <2ro0s5$708@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>, spender@kaiwan.com (Stephen L Pendergast) writes:
|> I have just gotten a CD-Rom drive for my macintosh, and I note 
|> that it has foreign drive extension and ISO9660 as well. 
|> I had a CD-ROM I hot from the National Oceanographic Data Center 
|> with a large data base on it, which came with dos basic executable 
|> software for access. I have run it using a 486 with DOS 3.1 
|> +Windows 3.1, and it runs fine. But when I use softPC to run 
|> the same software on the MAC, the basic software cannot find 
|> the files on the CD-ROM, although they show up on the finder 
|> desktop. My general question is regarding use of SoftPC on 
|> the Mac to access PC/Windows CD-ROMS. Does it work in general,
|> and if so, are there any tricks to making it work.
|> TIA
|> Steve

I have a similiar problem.  I have a NEC 3xp hooked up to my Mac, and
all the filenames on the DOS CD-ROM have a ";1" appended to them, i.e.
SETUP.EXE;1.  I've tried both the NEC drivers and CorelSCSI drivers
and they both have this problem.  I tried to access the Mac CD-ROM
drive over a network with a PC running PhoneNet.  The PC could mount
the Mac CD-ROM drive fine, but all the filenames have been renamed
because PhoneNet thinks the ";1" extensions are non-standard MS-DOS
filenames.

My question is: are there any CD-ROM drivers that will not put ";1" on
the DOS filenames?  Or is there any network software that will not
rename the DOS filenames into some weird standard?

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