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Date:	Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:27:33 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: CD Filesystems

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HCM wrote:

> Anyone know anything about the different file systems for CD's and their
> use in OS/2?

Only hearsay and experiential knowledge, but maybe that will be enough.

> I have 2 CD units in my machine and as they boot to the
> CDFS filesystem.
>
> As long as I have a data CD in a drive, I can see the contents of that
> drive, using the OS/2 drive folder, or FileStar. However, if I switch to
> a music disk, for example, then I cannot use the drive folder or
> FileStar. I can still access the music CD through RSJ, however (play the
> CD, see the track info, etc).

> Is there a way to go from a data CD, to a music CD, etc
> and use the normal OS/2 facilities to read the drive?

Unless you're talking about a cd full of discrete MP3 files, a music CD is going to be some different kind of file format. (My Guess: maybe
a continuous ISO image, divided into tracks ?) You won't normally be able to access or read it in the same way you would a data cd.
However, I have heard some chatter about an OS/2 program -- shareware, I think -- called Tonigy. I think it lets you access these CDs in a
way more like what you have in mind. Anyway, it's around, maybe even on some of the SCOUG CDs, and it won't cost anything to skim the docs.
If I'm confusing it with another driver/ program, no doubt someone will correct me. I know that Tony B. does a lot of stuff with music and
music app.s, so he probably knows about this stuff. Peter probably as well.

> Are there other installable CD file systems for OS/2? For example, can
> you install UDF?

There is a 1.0 UDF driver that ships as part of eCS. (This suggests a question I would have asked Kim at the last meeting. The 2.0 UDF
driver has been out for several weeks now, yet I saw Kim load the 1.0 ver. during his presentation. Is there something wrong with 2.0, Kim
? In their docs, the WarpVision guys say something about avoiding UDF beyond ver. 1.15, but I don't have a DVD player installed, and since
WV has been rather a bust over here in any case, I haven't messed with UDF at all.)

Jordan

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