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From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-alpha CDROM
Message-ID: <1992Jul12.084701.4141@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org>
Date: 12 Jul 92 08:47:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: pilhuhn.1992Jul12.084701.4141
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terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:

>|> Oh, one more point re: ISO9960 availability.  The standard MS-DOS software

>DOS isn't very useful in general, and with the sad fact being that it can't be
>used as a cross-compilation environment for 386BSD, I don't think the utility

This right. But I have a platform, on which I *know*, that I can read and
use ISO-CD Rom, but I don't know for shure if I can read (or use) the Sun FS
on it. 

If the CD appears as ISO-9660, I'm gonna buy one with 99% probability, as I
know it will be usefull for me. But with a Sun-FS, I would have to try it out,
what wouldn't be so easy; the effect would be, that I wouldn't buy one, which
wouldn't help neither me nor CSRG.

>POSIX-noncompliant case-folding is doubly damning.  Even without ISO9960
>restrictions to this effect, DOS would still impose them on you.

ISO9660 does not mean, that this CD can only be used under DOS. There exist
ISO9660 drivers for real OSes - I even think for 386BSD.
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Heiko W.Rupp  Gerwigstr.5  7500 Kh'e 1  hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org  +49 721 693642
Is this TERMINAL fun?