still in use by Roxios Easy CD Creator. (What does CIF mean?
knows, though “Corel Image Format” is as good a definition as any.) Jeff Arnold’s CDRWIN created them as “BIN” files, with a separate “cue sheet” that described the contents. You can unpack a BIN/CUE combo with “binchunker”, which is now integrated into Fireburner (section (6-1-50)). A “.DAT” file could be most anything, but usually it’s a video file pulled off of a VideoCD. A program at http://www.vcdgear.com/ can convert .DAT to .MPG, and recording programs like Nero can record them directly. A “.ISO” file that contains an image of an ISO-9660 filesystem can be manipulated in a number of ways: it can be written to a CD-ROM; mounted as a device with the Linux “loopback” filesystem (e.g. “mount ./cdimg.iso /mnt/test -t iso9660 -o loop”); copied to a hard drive partition and mounted under UNIX; or viewed with WinImage (section (6-2-2)). There is no guarantee, however, that a “.ISO” file contains ISO-9660 filesystem data. And it is quite common to hear people refer to things as “ISO” whi
