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I am (hopefully) starting up a company that is based upon an alternate operating system. Does anyone know how to go about contacting companies that offer cdroms to offer or discuss with them converting their existing cdroms into a format our native operating system can utilize? I imagine it would take getting the original source information and then writing our engine into it, but I am not the techie and don't much about how cdroms are built and what type of errrr index engines drive them at the software level etc… Any leads or tips on books, contacts etc would be much appreciated! Thanks, Victor