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From: "Joydeep Mitra" <jolly_joydeep AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: RE: CD-ROM Compatibility
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:43:03 +1000
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CDFS is what Windoze uses to access CDs which are "normal" (ie for
ISO9660 and Joliet CDs). If you have a CD written using packets instead
of complete blocks, or if you are accessing a DVD, then Windoze will use
a UDF driver instead. 

From a programming standpoint, CDFS provides an API to read files from a
CD like it was a read-only hard disk (when in reality reading from a CD
is completely different), much like MSCDEX (or its equivalents) in DOS.

So the short answer to your question is "No".

Regards,

Joydeep

> -----Original Message-----
> From: da Silva, Joe [mailto:Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, 16 September 2002 5:57 PM
> To: 'opendos AT delorie DOT com'
> Subject: RE: CD-ROM Compatibility
> 
> Thanks for the info., Joydeep.
> 
> Pity there is no work-around in DR-DOS ...     :-(
> 
> I just had an idea - in Windoze 95SR2 "My Computer", I right-clicked
> on the F: (CD-ROM) drive and then selected "Properties". This reported
> "File system : CDFS". Does this correspond to the "relaxed standard"
> you referred to?
> 
> Joe.
>