#One-off details
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I'm looking for a one-off service bureau who can accept an Exabyte 8mm 'tar'
tape containing a mess of files to be put on a CD-ROM. My question is, are all
these systems DOS-based, and therefore can't support full ISO-style filenames
with up to 20 characters? Are they all limited to DOS's 8.3 filenames? Or if
they're Mac-based, what software could read a Unix 'tar' tape?
John,
I've used our Exabyte tape utility program to make and use 'tar' files. It's
possible to make a UNIX CD from files with longer than 8.3 filenames using
either the PC or Mac versions of TOPiX (the CD premastering s/w we use) or with
some other programs. Our Washington DC shop has done this successfully, and
the Vancouver shop has made VAX/VMS CDs which may also have non-PC filenames
(it's been so long since I've used VMS I just don't remember). I'm sure than
among the bunch of us we could help you out. Actually, I think TOPiX can use
any ISO9660 compliant filenames, and there is a switch that allows one to use
non-standard filenames as well.
Would you like to try it out?
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.
Kathy – try telling John about Amiga CDROMS. <g>
Could you tell us about Amiga CDROMs? I've got a local Amiga club who
want to make discs, and I'm sure we can do it as image files, but
they haven't yet brought them in to try it out so I'd be talking
theory, not experience.
When John asked you about making CDROMS, I figured he was planning on
making some for the Amiga, since he has an Amiga software company.
I know that the Amiga CDROM software from XETEC and from ASIMWARE can
read ISO9660, CDTV, and Mac disks. Unfortunately, at the time I
bought my CDROM drive, my dealer had only the CDROM-FS software,
which does not support these other platforms, so I can only read the
9660 disks. ANyway, the only Amiga disks I have tried are the Fish
disks and the AB20 disk from Walnut Creek – oh, and the Commodore
Developer's CDROM, with all of the RKM, Includes, AutoDocs, etc.
I know that you have an Amiga, and was hoping you had made some CDROMS
for it. I know that a couple of developers in England have conducted
several conferences in which they make a CDROM disk from start to
finish in one hour, explaining the process as they go, but I've not
had the opportunity to hear them.
Betty,
Thanks for the info-filled note! No, my little A-2000/40 (actually my 2nd Amiga
— I bought a 1000 in '86, too) just isn't cost-effective to back up onto CD-R,
and I haven't had time in the past 2 years 🙁 to work on my language-learning
program, which eventually I'll publish on a mixed-mode disc (Amiga/PC/Mac).
The darned systems & applications software keeps changing on me while I'm off
doing other things, and catch-up is just about impossible. Maybe someday…
Thanks,
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.