Article 130809 of comp.os.vms:
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From: gordon@waylay.enet.dec.com (InfoServer Software Engineering)
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Subject: Re: Writing CD-ROMs for VMS
Date: 5 Oct 1995 13:38:47 GMT
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In article <44tq8g$hl4@Owl.nstn.ca>, Paul Williams <paul@herald.ns.ca> writes:
>Is there any way to write a CD-ROM for VMS?
>
>It seems unlikely that a native VMS application exists but could it be 
>done with Windows and a 9660 disc?
>
>I'd like to archive some large files off an Alpha and DAT is a pain.
>
>Paul Williams
>The Halifax Herald
>paul@herald.ns.ca
>Check out our daily electronic paper and Bruce MacKinnon cartoon:
>http://www.herald.ns.ca
>

	InfoServer with the CD-R license/function is capable of writing
ODS-2 (Unifile) format CDs.  I do it all the time.  There is an InfoServer
Publisher package, but you can often do better by assembling a package
yourself using one of the higher end recorders.

	InfoServer kernel V3.3 supports the Philips CDD522 and Yamaha CDR100
(as well as those supported by previous releases.)

	I've also managed to port the GNU mkisofs utility to run under POSIX
for OpenVMS (both VAX and Alpha.)  I'm not quite ready to give it away yet,
but even ISO-9660 formatting is possible under VMS now.

					--Doug
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Doug Gordon                             gordon@waylay.enet.dec.com
InfoServer Software Engineering         Anything resembling an opinion
Digital Equipment Corporation             is mine and not Digital's.
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