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What UNIX CD-ROM formats does A/UX support?

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What UNIX CD-ROM formats does A/UX support?

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Other than the “normal” A/UX SysV and UFS file system type, A/UX supports ISO-9660 file system format CD-ROMs. However, you can only access these CDs from the MacOS environment; you can’t “mount” them in the normal Unix-way. As distributed, A/UX doesn’t include the needed Extensions that allow the MacOS Environment from recognizing these CDs. To fix this, you need to copy the following Extensions from the Apple CD-ROM Software disks (version 3.2 or later) to the System Folder of the user(s) that need access to these CDs: Foreign File Access, High Sierra File Access, ISO 9660 File Access. The docs are a little blurry on this (even though it’s specifically mentioned in Chapter 5 of the “Setting Up Accounts and Peripherals for A/UX”) since they say that you don’t need to add any kernel resources… One of A/UX’s quirks is that all files on ISO-9660 CDs are “seen” as TEXT type files. This causes troubles with binary files since when you try to drag them over to the “/” disk, A/UX will perf

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