Re: DiscQuest question

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <1994Aug10.110643.27788@relay.nswc.navy.mil>,
KevinJohnson <kjjohns@L10SUN1.NSWC.NAVY.MIL> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>	I hope someone can answer a discquest question I have.
>I am thinking of buying a CD_Rom that is formatted in the ISO-9660
>format.  Is this the format discquest uses?  I would like to know 
>before I buy the CD_Rom.  And before I buy discquest, a CD_Rom drive,
>a SCSI card.....

   ISO-9660 format just specifies how disk is formatted, basically.
If you have System 6.0 or later (it might have been in 5.0.4, but
I'm not sure), your GS will be able to recognize and maybe do things
with the files on the disk. If it is some form of collection (sounds,
music, some graphics, etc) then with the right FST, you should be
able to read the files, but deciding what to do with them is harder.

   DiscQuest reads disks with stuff on them in the DisqPassage format.
I believe that that format specifies how the individual files are
formatted, with links between them, the format of the pictures and
sound, and all that. Jawaid should be able to give you a clearer
explanation than I...

   For example, we have some disks here containing the system software
for a SGI machine. Those disks are ISO-9660, according to the label.
If I got a CD-Rom drive for my GS, I could probably access the disk
from the Finder. But, I wouldn't be able to do diddly-squat with it,
DiscQuest or no.

Nathan Mates



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