Everhart, Glenn
From:	Kerry Main [Kerry.Main@digital.com]
Sent:	Monday, March 29, 1999 8:01 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	RE: Advice on creating VMS-compatible CDRs anyone ?
Pretty good OpenVMS CDR web site at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/9999/vmscdwri.html

Regards,

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant,
Compaq Canada Inc.
Voice : 613-591-5078 / 621-5078 (dtn)
Fax    : 613-591-5113
Email : kerry.main@compaq.com



-----Original Message-----
From: john@yrl.co.uk [mailto:john@yrl.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 11:22 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Advice on creating VMS-compatible CDRs anyone ?


I have two Vaxstation 4000s at home, one of which is equipped with a Toshiba
CDROM drive.  I would like to be able to burn some CDRs from a suitable PC,
containing such things as installation kits, documentation, to go with any
and all bits and pieces that I hope to acquire via the Hobbyist Licence
program (please skate quickly over the legal issues here, if this
offends...)
(I can borrow the entire CONDIST and CONOLD sets, but would prefer to put
together, say, a single CD from each containing what is relevant to my own
machines and software.)

Trawling through DejaNews, I have found that some folks have burned CDRs
by using VDDRIVER-served "container" disks, which are INIT'd and filled
as ODS-2 volumes and then FTP'd in binary mode to a suitable PC where the
CDR is written using this single file as a "disk image".  I read this as a
block-by-block copy to the CD, thus resulting in an ODS-2 volume.  Is that
correct ?  If so, it will presumably not be easily readable elsewhere ?

Are there other alternatives ?  I know that VMS 6.0 and up supports ISO9660
format, which is more widely supported.  If I wanted to do this, and was
creating CDRs of purely textual information, for example, on my PC, are
there
any nasties to look out for which would render this CDR unreadable on my VS
?
I'm thinking of file/directory structure, file-names, etc.


Any and all advice gratefully appreciated.  (Of course this all depends on
us getting this CDRW drive to burn just one CDR without failing...)

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