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Key sticking

    03-Jul-91 17:30:42
Sb: #27131-Key sticking
Fm: John Pendergrass 76246,676
To: Vic Wagner 76046,3004
That would be wonderful. Those DAK products look too good to be true at times! Now, naive question time: Let's assume that I get a CD-ROM drive and attach it via SCSI to my A2500. (the Xetek (sp?) drive, for instance, that comes with Amiga drivers, FF disc, etc) I gather that I cannot use any of the many IBMish CD-ROMs in it, correct? Is the reason: 1) because I cannot read the data off the disc *at all* , 2) I can read the raw data, but cannot interpret it cause it is in MS-DOS format?, 3) I can read the raw data and get it to my amiga, but cannot interpret it cause it is encrypted? Example: A CD-ROM with the complete works of Shakespeare. It has all the text, probably organized by play, act, verse, etc…. probably indexed more ways than Sunday. Well, if I hook it up to the system described above, can I even sit there reading text? Can I get that far? Can I read an 'index' on the disc that tells me where stuff is? Is all this a function of the CD-ROM driver (which apparently is included in Xetek system), or of the OS itself? As you can tell, I am very confused. 🙁 –jp–seattle–