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Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 20:09:01 EDT
From: <CHARLESW@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Movie/Cinema CD-ROM?

I saw an ad the other day (perhaps in InfoWorld?) for a Roger Ebert
reviews & interviews CD-ROM.  It appeared to be MS-DOS only so I didn't save
it.  Of course now I wish I had...

.../dave   Dave Charlesworth
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.BITNET (Dan Lester)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: List operation?
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:43:18 GMT
Reply-To: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.bitnet>
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW

On Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:58:16 EDT you said:
>
>Can somebody tell me if the list server doesn't send messages to the
>originator?  Seems to me that I used to see my messages come back
>from the list server, but I don't any more.  This is a problem
>because I compile the list about once a week and post the file in a
>library in our CompuServe forum.  If my messages are missing, that's
>going to be confusing to anyone who reads it.
>
>I guess this also makes me wonder if the messages get through or not!
>
   This is an FAQ on many lists...so I will answer it publicly.
The listserv software can be set in many different ways for many different
parameters.  One of the parameters is called REPRO, which controls
whether or not you receive your own postings back.  Most lists seem to be
defaulted to NOREPRO, so as soon as I join any list, the next command is
SET LISTNAME REPRO , as I like to see my own postings, partly because it
does let me know they made it, and if it is a moderated list, that the
moderator had the intelligence to distribute it.  8-)

My lists (CDROMLAN, ADVANC-L, CIRCPLUS) all have REPRO set as the default
since I think most folks would rather see their own postings.  But it
is just as easy to send the command to NOREPRO if you don't want to be
bothered with your own stuff.

 Send the command described above to LISTSERV at the appropriate place...
not to the list.....and it will happen.  Send the command by whatever
method you used to join the list, either direct Bitnet command, or email.

dan

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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: norm@sdc.com (Norm)
Subject: Re: "Languages of the world" CD wanted
Organization: Systems Development Corporation
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:33:22 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.213146.4083@socrates.umd.edu> ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes:
>If anyone out there bought a Sony or DAK BSR CD-ROM drive which
>came with "Languages of the world" bundled, drop me a note if
>you'd be willing to sell it.

You can get it for $59 from S&S Enterprises. 1-800-ROM-DISC.

Norman
From: HART@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU ("Michael S. Hart")
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: New Releases
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:15:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: UCCVMA.CDROM-L%92041613252317
Reply-To: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW

A new version of the King James' Bible is being released in honor of Easter,
and a new edition of Far From the Madding Crowd has been released.

They can be anonymously FTP'd from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu  (cd etext92)

bible10.txt and bible10.zip
crowd13.txt and crowd13.zip

These are large files, make sure you have 5M for bible10.txt or 1.6M zip.
750K for crowd13.txt, 360K for zip.

This Bible has been extensively proofread against a variety of other Bibles
to create a more accurate etext.  Please advise of corrections or suggestions.

crowd13 should be an improvement over crowd10 in several respects.

=====================================================

Thank you for your interest,

Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text
Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext
Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532
No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC
From: gloster@INFERENCE.COM ("Vance M. Gloster")
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: [clements@BBN.COM: Microsoft Programmer's CD-ROM]
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:09:58 GMT
Reply-To: "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW


    Last year some time I got a flyer from Microsoft for a
    "Programmer's <something> CD-ROM".  Where <something> was
    Reference or Library or some such.  The contents were
    documentation and coding examples for various Microsoft
    languages, Windows, and so on.  Naturally, I can't find that
    old flyer now that I have gotten a CD-ROM drive.

    Could someone refresh my memory on what the correct title is?  And
    more importantly (since I could get that from Microsoft's sales
    department) could someone post a quickee review and/or a source
    for the disc at something less than Microsoft's list price?

    Thanks a lot for any help.

    Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com

The title is the Microsoft Programmer's Library.  It is great!  It is
the most useful CD I own.  It contains all of the Microsoft
documentation for all of their development tools including C, Fortran,
Pascal, Cobol, Windows SDK, Windows DDK, and assembler.  They also
have the MS-DOS encyclopedia and some hardware and operating system
documentation.  It also contains several programer's books including
_Programming_Windows_ by Charles Petzold and Advanced MS-DOS by Ray
Duncan.  It has documentation for both DOS and OS/2 versions of
everything, though that may change in the future.  At this point it
has ~6 Meg of sample programs including source code from the books and
Microsoft's demo programs.  There are some Microsoft demo programs
that are not included with the associated product.  There is also some
public domain source code.  Microsoft has a search engine that is
included that can be installed as a TSR and popped up while you are in
an editor writing code.  For many popular editors you can highlight a
section of source code found inside the search engine, and then tell
the search engine to paste it into the current buffer of your editor.
Mondo cool!  Everything is indexed very well.  It tends to go out of
date quickly and Microsoft issues an update at least once and
sometimes twice a year.  These are not free.  If programming is what
you do it will be well worth the price.  If programming is a hobby it
will seem a little pricey.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
From: whittington@fixsr1.enet.dec.com (Phantom)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Music out of CD?
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:00:02 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


I have an ADAPTEC CD-ROM player in my applicationDEC 433MP system, running SCO
UNIX and DOS. I am able to mount and do a directory of the disk. My question is
how to I play my Beatles Abbey Road on it after I mount it? I know there is a
way to play music CD's on this unit.
From: BROWN.C@applelink.apple.com (Chris Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Photo CD and CD-ROMs
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:06:44 GMT
Distribution: USA
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.


There has been a lot of questions and confusion about Photo CD and CD-ROM 
drives - some of them specifically about Apple's CD-ROM drives. Here's the 
true story:

Photo CD discs can only be used on CD-ROM drives that support the XA Mode 
2, Form 1 format. Apple has two drives that meet this requirement: the 
Apple CD SC Plus and the AppleCD 150. A few other vendors currently 
support this format too.

Photo CDs introduce the concept of multi-session discs. If you take one 
roll or multiple rolls of film to the developer and have them put on the 
disc at one time, you have a single-session disc. Any current XA drive 
will be able to access all the photographs on the disc. If you take the 
Photo CD disc back to the developer a week later with more film, you will 
get back a disc that has two session on it (multi-session). The current 
CD-ROM drives on the market can not access anything beyond the first 
session. The problem is with the drive hardware design and drive firmware. 
The driver software cannot be modified to read a multi-session discs. The 
drive hardware/firmware must be instructed to look beyond the lead-out 
area of the first session for a second session. This was considered the 
"end of the world" before, and no attempt was ever made to read beyond the 
first lead-out area.

I know of only one drive right now that can read a multi-session discs: 
the Philips CD-I player. All Photo CD discs will have a folder containing 
a CD-I application to view the photographs on the disc. Apple announced 
recently that a drive will be released later this year that can handle 
multi-session Photo CDs. IUm sure other vendor's will also release 
multi-session drives too.

Normal Photo CDs can contain an average maximum of 100 photographs. There 
will be at least one photograph per track. The number of tracks and number 
of sessions are unrelated. The 99 track limit per disc still applies.


Chris Brown, Removable Media Engineer
Apple Computer, Inc.
BROWN.C@applelink.apple.com
From: system@micromed.net.netcom.com (Duane Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROM with a 486?
Date: 17 Apr 92 02:35:42 GMT
Organization: Micro-Medic +1 408 280 1610

WALTERG@YORKVM1.BITNET writes:
> Does anyone have experience with running a CD-ROM drive attached to a 486?
> I've recently read something in CD-ROM PROFESSIONAL which cautions against
> doing so, because of a mismatch with the CPU speed. Is this a valid precautio
> Any comments?

I was running two Sony CD-ROM's on my 486-40 network server. It worked
great except that network performance suffered considerably whenever they
were accessed. 


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From: warnock@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Archie Warnock)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROM with a 486?
Date: 17 Apr 92 21:51:00 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Hughes STX - NASA/NCDS
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <92107.142014WALTERG@YORKVM1.BITNET>, WALTERG@YORKVM1.bitnet writes...
>Does anyone have experience with running a CD-ROM drive attached to a 486?

I'm running a Sony CD-ROM drive on a 486/33 no-name clone.  No problems 
at all.

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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: datta@cs.uwp.edu (David Datta)
Subject: Looking for programming libraries & code samples
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:23:38 GMT

I am looking for code samples and and software for controlling a CD ROM
player for music CDs.

I have a Magnavox CDD461 with the CDD163 Serial interface.

It came with a simple control-panel type program, I am looking for the
source code for something that would:

	play the disc
	skip tracks
	pause the disc
	etc...

I am willing to write software to do this in C or Pascal if someone has
the control information for the interface.

I am also interested in conversing anyone who may have methods of
reading the digital data off of a music CD directly into the PC for
processing.
-- 
-Dave datta@cs.uwp.edu.
Visit the music FTP archives at cs.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4)
From: joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch  )
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: RE:Street Atlas ( was FAQ list) 
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 02:12:53 EDT
Organization: Upchurch Computer Consulting, Orlando FL

> A USA street map CD-ROM is available for $99 from Delorme Mapping,
> PO Box 298, Lower Main Street, Freeport, Maine 04032
> Telephone 207-865-1234
> Nice map CD-ROM for travelers or those with lots of money for toys that are
> outdated in a few months.

Insight Software (1-800-755-9657) sells Street Atlas for $65. That's where
I bought my copy. They have some attractive prices on other titles also.
I bought the Greatest Book Collection from them for $30. It appears to
be a subset of the Library of the Future. It has a total of 150 titles
on it. It has Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, and the King James Bible.
It also has some classic titles like War & Peace, Don Quixote, Robinson
Crusoe, Tale of Two Cities, etc. Worth having at the price if you don't
have the LOTF.

(If your mail bounces use the address below. My map entry is new.)
Joel Upchurch/Upchurch Computer Consulting/718 Galsworthy/Orlando, FL 32809
joel@peora.ccur.com {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd,ucf-cs}!peora!joel (407) 859-0982
From: jim@wicat.UUCP (Jim Raehl)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: DAK CD-ROM Drive News
Summary: 800-ms drive for $199.90, Nice 3 CD-ROM bundle for $49.90
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:57:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: wicat.727
Reply-To: jim@wicat.UUCP (Jim Raehl)
Organization: WICAT Systems, Orem, Utah

In article <726@wicat.UUCP> jim@wicat.UUCP I wrote:

>A catalog describing CD-ROM products and the uses of CD-ROM is available from
>DAK Industries Incorporated, 8200 Remmet Avenue, Canoga Park, California 91304
>Telephone 818-888-8220 or 800-DAK-0800
>(This contains the "famous" DAK offer--a BSR (aka Sony) CD-ROM player,
>Microsoft Bookshelf 1991, and two other CD-ROM's for $399. The catalog has an
>incredible amount of CD-ROM hype.)

DAK now has an 800-ms CD-ROM drive for $199.90 (+ $19 P&H).  Real slow, but
also real cheap.  They assure me it's new.  The number has a U in front, if
it's used.  If anyone buys one, please post the manufacturer name, the
usual statistics, and an opinion.  The drive is caddyless.  The "Compact
Disc" label on front is identical to the one on our NEC Intersect drive
at work.

The bundle at $49.90 (no P&H) includes Microsoft Bookshelf, The Family
Doctor, and Battle Chess.  Too bad they don't have an encyclopedia and
PC-SIG.

Looks like waiting a year before I buy a CD-ROM drive is paying off.  By the
end of this year, prices will likely look quite reasonable.



-- 
Jim Raehl  (801) 224-6400     *  "See 5th amendment, US constitution ..."
WICAT Systems, Incorporated   *  
1875 South State Street       *  Packet radio: N7KXI@N7KXI.UT.USA.NA
Orem, Utah  84058  (USA)      *  (Morse code NOT required for license)
From: arvind@kaof.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: CD-ROM Data Entry Services
Keywords: CD-ROM, Data entry, PC, business
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:41:02 GMT
Reply-To: arvind@kaof.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Hi,

  A friend of mine in India, who is running a  business, has several PC's
that are underutilized (they are unutilized for about 16-17 hours each day). He
is interested in more effectively utilizing them. One idea that he is considering is data entry for CD-ROM's. Because of the lower costs of skilled
labor in India, he believes he will be able to offer data entry services at
very attractive rates to US customers. Distance will not be a problem thanks
to email and even regular air mail. He would like to know where to start.
How big and how saturated is the data entry services market? Which companies in
the US are likely to be interested in data entry services? What kind of special
equipment will he need? Is there any other way of more profitably utilizing his
PC's?

  I would appreciate any help that readers may be able to provide. Kindly email
your responses (arvind@nac.enet.dec.com), as I am not a frequent reader of this
group.

  Thank you.

	Arvind.
From: F10G015@SAKSU00.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: (none)
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:59:52 GMT
Reply-To: F10G015@SAKSU00.bitnet
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW

Subject:      List operation?

Nick Arnett <75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM> said:
>Can somebody tell me if the list server doesn't send messages to the
>originator?  Seems to me that I used to see my messages come back
>from the list server, but I don't any more.
>I guess this also makes me wonder if the messages get through or not!

To do this, send:   SET CD-ROM REPro   to the LISTSERV

The following is a list of the common commands:
(To get the whole file by sending GET LISTSERV REFCARD to the LISTSERV)

.---------------------------------------------------------
.SUBscribe  listname <full_name>        Subscribe to a list, or change
.                                       your name if already subscribed
.
.SIGNOFF                                Remove yourself:
.           listname                    - From the specified list
.           *                           - From all lists on that server
.           * (NETWIDE                  - From all lists in the network
.
.SET        listname options            Alter your subscription options:
.           ACK/NOACK/MSGack            -> Acknowledgements for postings
.           CONCEAL/NOCONCEAL           -> Hide yourself from REVIEW
.           Files/NOFiles               -> Toggle receipt of non-mail
.                                          files from the list
.           Mail/NOMail                 -> Toggle receipt of list mail
.           REPro/NOREPro               -> Copy of your own postings?
.
.Options for mail headers of incoming postings (choose one):
.           FULLhdr or FULLBsmtp        -> "Full" mail headers
.           IETFhdr                     -> Internet-style headers
.           SHORThdr or SHORTBsmtp      -> Short (default) headers
.
.CONFIRM    listname1 <listname2 <..>>  Confirm your subscription
.                                       (when LISTSERV requests it)

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| f10g015@saksu00  |  when the sun is shining, but wants it back the  |
|                  |  minute it begins to rain.                       |
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From: rab@sprite.berkeley.edu (Robert A. Bruce)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROMs for UNX
Date: 14 Apr 1992 09:16:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: murder.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Apr13.015212.22877@analsyn.gts.org> anton@analsyn.gts.org (Anton J Aylward) writes:
>I'd be particularly interested in colections of COMP.SOURCES and 
>such like.

I have put together a cdrom containing comp.sources, along with the
Simtel20 Unix-C Archive.  The price is $40.  Send me email if you are
interested, or give me a call at 1-800-786-9907.

Prime Time Freeware also has a disc containing the comp.sources archives
in compressed tar files.  The disc contains over a gigabyte of Unix
source code.  You can send PTF email at cfcl!rdm@apple.com.

	-bob

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu)
Subject: CD titling mechanism
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:00:48 GMT

I've seen some CD players which will actually somehow pick up
the title of a CD when you insert it.  Does anyone know how this is
encoded?  I was wondering if this information might be accessible
to our CD-ROM player (an RRD42).  Send responses to me, and I will
be happy to summarize if I receive requests for it.

Also, does anyone know off-hand the reference for what the CD storage
standard is?

	-castor fu
	castor@drizzle.stanford.edu
From: hsr4@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Apple & Photo CD
Date: 9 Apr 92 08:59:53 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

In article <7APR92094041@acad3.alaska.edu>, ffdkl@acad3.alaska.edu (LaSota Daniel K) writes:
> In article <920406235835_75300.1324_CHE28-2@CompuServe.COM>, 75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM (Nick Arnett) writes...
>>Attn: CDROM-L
>>                       Subject:
>>Time:3:34 PM
>>  OFFICE MEMO          Apple & Photo CD
>>Date:4/6/92
>>I found the answer to my own question...  Kodak's press release on
>>Photo CD and QuickTime says that the current AppleCD SC Plus can read
>>single-session Photo CD discs.  "Apple will also be enhancing its
>>CD-ROM drive to better support Photo CD technology in the future.
>>Apple has plans to introduce a fully compatible multisession Photo CD
>>drive later this year."
>> 
>>Nick Arnett
>>Multimedia Computing Corp.
>>Chief Sysop, Multimedia Forums on CompuServe
> 
> Just what is single and multi session mean in this context?
> 
> Curious,
> Ant Man!
> Dan LaSota
> ffdkl@acad3.alaska.edu

MacUser Vol 8 No 7 (April 3) p16:

"... Apple's current CD ROM drive can read single session Photo CD disks but not
disks which have been written twice - if, for example, two films have been
registered at different times.  Apple has now announced that it will introduce
a multi-session drive which will be fully Photo CD conpatible, later this year."

Unless you have all your masterpieces impressed at the same time, then until the
new drive appears you would appear to be able to access only those images which
were recorded during the first session.

Not knowing anything about CD surface formats, I can't offer an authoritative 
explanation as to why this might be so; I might speculate that it could be
caused by track registration difficulties.
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From: system@micromed.net.netcom.com (Duane Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CDROM and DOS 5
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 20:03:13 PDT
Organization: Micro-Medic +1 408 280 1610

lando@BRACHOT.JCT.AC.IL (Zvi Lando) writes:
> Can anyone tell me with what driver/program I can run my CDROM under DOS 5?
> My MSCDEX (ver 1.01) doesn't seem to work...

It works as long as you tell it it's running under an older version of DOS.

Here's what you do...

   1. Make sure that the following line exists in your config.sys file

                 DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE

   2. At the DOS prompt type the following

                 SETVER MSCDEX.EXE 4.0

This tells DOS to fool MSCDEX into thinking it's running under DOS 4.0.
There is a newer version of MSCDEX that takes care of the problem but
this works just as well.


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From: efisch@cs.utexas.edu (Eric A. Fisch)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Opinions on Toshiba  CDROM drives
Date: 7 Apr 1992 20:44:48 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.cs.utexas.edu

I am looking at possibly purchasing a Toshiba CDROM for 
a Macintosh computer and would like peoples opinions on
these drives. I have seen many different model numbers
(XM3101B, XM3201A, XM3201B) any insight on what the 
feature differences between these drive are is appreciated.

Regards,
Eric Fisch