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From: adelman@tgv.com (Kenneth Adelman)
Subject: Re: F11CD - ISO 9660 SUPPORT FOR VMS
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In article <1993Jun5.113835.68988@cc.usu.edu>, ivie@cc.usu.edu writes...
>In article <1993Jun5.105953.6167@spcvxb.spc.edu>, terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
>>> My
>>> company is getting ready to release our software on CDROM for VMS.
>>> (Our previous media was TK50.) We or our customers can't buy the ISO
>>> 9660 support software without buying useless InfoServer software.
>>
>>   If you are releasing just for VMS, why would you want to use ISO9660 in-
>> stead of native VMS format? (just curious).
>
>I'm not sure that your average garden-variety CD-ROM place can build
>native VMS format CD-ROMs. Also, Philips sells (for about $8000) a
>CD-ROM mastering kit for PCs, but I believe that it only generates
>ISO-9660 CD-ROMs; I haven't seen any literature on it other than the
>small blurb in BYTE, but that's the impression I got from the BYTE
>info.

    No, but DEC can. 1-800-DEC-MRDS (Media Replication Duplication
Services). You send them a VMS BACKUP/IMAGE format tape and they
send you back the CDs. We use them for our CD-ROM, TK50, and 9-Track
duplication.

							Ken