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Conference msgaxp::optical

Title:	Optical Products

Moderator:	TAPE::SENEKER

Created:	Wed May 04 1988
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	841
Total number of notes:	3218

823.0. "Write optical Disks on VMS which can be read on WNT" by ATZIS3::ARCH_R (Raimund ARCH,MCS Austria *791/2259) Mon Apr 21 1997 12:43

    Hello,
    
    	I do have a customer who wants to know if it is possible to write
    	Opticals Disks on OpenVMS and read them on WNT.
    	As far as I know OSDS uses for OpenVMS  WORMS-11 and FILES-11
    	and WNT needs ISO-9660.
    	What other possibilities do we have ?
    	Are there any ?
    	
    	Your answers will be appreciated,
    
    					raimund

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
823.1	ISO9660 is CDROM, not 'OPTICAL'	KERNEL::CLARK	STRUGGLING AGAINST GRAVITY...	`Tue Apr 22 1997 08:41`	14
823.2		LEFTY::CWILLIAMS	CD or not CD, that's the question	`Tue Apr 22 1997 13:21`	6
	And in answer to the original question - no, we have no way to do that today. Sorry, Chris
823.3	There are some alternatives	EVMS::EVERHART		`Tue Apr 22 1997 16:16`	10
	Best bet now is there are some ports out there of mkisofs for VMS (said to run under Posix) to write iso filesystems on vms, or possibly use the ods-2 reader software on the decus sig tapes (also freeware v3) that should be able to read ods-2 disks under other OSs. It comes in src, but I've seen no msdos / windows xx binaries. Yet. (Failing that you can always write tar format cds... )
823.4	Now I see	ATZIS2::ARCH_R	Raimund ARCH,MCS Austria *791/2259	`Wed Apr 23 1997 06:48`	6
	Thank you for your answers(efforts). Repl.1: Thank you for educating me. Raimund