Re: CD-ROM Sharing Software

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From: Tom Boismier
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 00:00

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G. Ross wrote:
> 
> > Is mounting the cdrom as a volume not a viable solution?
> 
> I'm really after something that will do caching of the CD data (possibley
> using part of the servers HD)

2 no-cost options:

1. If you have enough free disk space, just copy the entire CD's
contents to the server drive, then do a map root. This has worked well
for me with several CD apps.

2. Load CDROM.NLM It caches directory info to disk, and uses Netware's
excellent RAM cache for data.

-- 
Thomas E. Boismier, MPH <boismier@umich.edu>
Assistant Director, Vestibular Testing Center
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
University of Michigan Hospitals

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Date: 1997/02/24
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