| Title: | "ASK THE WIZARDS" |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 12 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1857 |
| Total number of notes: | 3728 |
Return-Path: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com Received: by vmsmkt.zko.dec.com (UCX V4.1-12, OpenVMS V6.2 VAX); Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:50:31 -0500 Received: from vms001 by mail12.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id IAA18614; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:48:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:50:59 -0500 Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com (18-Mar-1997 0851) To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Ask the Wizard: '[email protected]' X-VMS-To: [email protected] Remote Host: (null) Browser Type: Mozilla/3.01 (WinNT; I) Remote Info: <null> Name: Andy Wilcox Email Address: [email protected] CPU Architecture: VAX and Alpha Version: v 6.2 Questions: Is there anyway I can read a VMS CD-ROM from my PC. I've tried using NFS export but this will not work for VMS CD's.
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| 1691.1 | Disk and File Structure Incompatible | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Mon Mar 24 1997 18:18 | 20 |
Most OpenVMS CD-ROMs are written in the ODS-2 disk structure, in the ISO9660 disk structure, or in a hybrid combination of the two on-disk formats. The disk structure and file formats are not compatible between OpenVMS and PC systems, save for sequential-format files located on ISO9660-format CD-ROMs. Once you have the file(s) transfered or accessable to the PC, you will need an application that can process the files. This might be a PC text editor for a sequential file, or it might be a tool (or a port of a tool) that can read and process a particular file format on the PC. If you are trying to read documentation from a PC, consider using the current bookreader CD-ROM, and one of the available OpenVMS webservers -- the most recent OpenVMS documentation CD-ROMs contain HTML-format text in addition to bookreader-format files. | |||||