[Coco] Re: Hard drive success! Now what about CD's...?

[Christopher Hawks]

Willard Goosey wrote:
>> From: Leon Howell <puritan_2076 at yahoo.com>
[...]
>> I thought I could do that with the Superdrivers. What more do CD's need? 
> 
> Well... You can.  The CD Cloud-9 sells uses the regular OS-9 file
> system, So the Superdrivers should be all you'd need.  The CD would
> look like a regular hard drive.
> 
> But just like OS-9 needs outside programs to read/write PC format
> floppies, it doesn't automatically know about the regular file system
> on CD-ROMs.  That's what Hawks' CDman does.  And, since CDMan is a
> kernel-level file-system driver, suddenly all the regular OS9 tools
> will work on CD-ROMs.  (That's the theory anyway.)

	Actually, it's called CDF (CD Filemanager). And yes, all the tools work.

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Christopher R. Hawks
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