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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 08:43

    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
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823.1ISO9660 is CDROM, not 'OPTICAL'KERNEL::CLARKSTRUGGLING AGAINST GRAVITY...Tue Apr 22 1997 04:4114
    Raimund...
    	ISO-9660 is CDROM format.
    
    	Opticals � la OSDS/OSMS are NOT CDROMs.
    
    	OSDS/OSMS do not write/read ISO-9660 format (CDROMs).
    
    	CDROMs will not fisically phit or work in 'OPTICAL' hardware (RW5xx)
    
    	Maybe the customer is unaware of the distinction and should be
    educated.
    
    				Regards...
    				Dave Clark
823.2LEFTY::CWILLIAMSCD or not CD, that's the questionTue Apr 22 1997 09:216
    And in answer to the original question - no, we have no way to do that
    today. 
    
    Sorry,
    		Chris
823.3There are some alternativesEVMS::EVERHARTTue Apr 22 1997 12:1610
    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...
    )
823.4Now I seeATZIS2::ARCH_RRaimund ARCH,MCS Austria *791/2259Wed Apr 23 1997 02:486
    
    Thank you for your answers(efforts).
    
    Repl.1: Thank you for educating me.
    
    				Raimund