Re: Unix Under Dos/Win95

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From: Curt Sampson
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:00

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In article <4jbv6e$6q9@news-e2c.gnn.com>,
Perry Blanchfield <Pwblanch@gnn.com> wrote:
>I would like to be able to read a UNIX CD ROM on my PC. I have a DOS/Windows 
>based Pentium with a SCSI hard drive and 2 SCSI CD roms. Could anyone tell me 
>what I would need to do this. I would appreciate any help on this. 

It depends on the format of the CD. If it's in ISO-9660 format,
you can read it directly. If it's got the `Rock Ridge' extensions,
it's still in ISO-9660 format, but you won't be able to read the
long filenames. If it's in UFS format or some other Unix-only
format, you probably can't read it.

cjs
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