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Re: Any info on reading or writing to CD-ROM?

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From: Erwin Paguio
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 06:45
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In article <sehari.827706428@eng3.iastate.edu>, sehari@iastate.edu (Babak $ehari) writes:
|> ----
|> 
|> I am looking for a book or other informative material about reading
|> and writing tracks of a CD-ROM.  Can I do it with BIOS only or do I
|> need DOS?  Is it any different from reading and writing regular floppy
|> or hard disks?!
|> 
|> I Like to do this in C or C++, if there is any good library that can
|> read or write sectors/tracks of CD-ROM.  If that is not
|> possible, I like to know about BIOS INT or DOS INT that does this.
|> 
|> Any good assembly books that talks about this subject?
|> 
|>                             With highest regards,
|>                                  Babak   Sehari.
|> 

I suggest you look at the MSCDEX documentation.  It discusses the ways on how to
read from a CDROM.  As reagrds to writing to one, I don't have any idea -- but I
think your CDROM drive must support it before you can perfrom a write.

YO!
-- 
Erwin D. Paguio
http://rh.iist.unu.edu/~ep/ydeeps.html
Pascal and ASM Enthusiast
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Date: 25 Mar 1996 14:45:07 +0800
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