HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lokp@MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA ("K.P.Lo")
Subject: Re: Time to boycott Photo CD
Reply-To: "K.P.Lo" <lokp@MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:45:05 GMT

I just read in the September 1992 issue of PHOTOgraphic megazine about the
Photo CD, and apparently one can pull images off the CD and manipulate it
with a Macintosh or PC.  On page 20, the author says:
  "Once you've got your images on a Photo CD, you can easily download them
  directly onto your Apple Macintosh or PC system via a CD-ROM XA Drive.
  The file formats supported for the Macintosh system include TIFF, EPS
  (Encapsulated PostScript), and PICT; for the PC, Windows BMP, EPS, PCS,
  RIFF, and TIFF file formats are supported.
  The images illustrated here were brought into Adobe Photoshop,
  currently the most professional photo-retouching application available
  for Apple Macintosh computers, via the Acquire module, a "plug-in"
  specifically created by Kodak for Photoshop."

He went on to give more detailed description of how he played with the
images.  So looks like one can at least extract images out of the CD.


K.P. Lo                                                         416-525-9140
Programmer/Analyst                                                     x3862
McMaster University                 I'm so good, they gave me            |
Hamilton, Ontario                  my own personalized extension --------
Canada



On Thu, 27 Aug 1992, Michael Collier wrote:

> In article <l9okqpINNnc6@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
>  writes:
> >Kodak wants to tie up the file formats under lock and key.  You can't
> >write a program to open their files.  You can't even write a program
> >which generates their files.  Don't expect to ever see interfaces
> >between Photo CD and pbm or TeX.  If you write a neat program which
> >does XXX to a file in Kodak format, you can't give that program to
> >anyone else.
> >
> >The only people who can read/write the Photo CD files are commercial
> >vendors who pay Kodak royalties.
>
> well, then, this would seem to impact folks like Adobe and Aldus. at
> this point, given the apparently proprietary nature of the file formats,
> can one do anything with these images using, say, Photoshop? i had
> always assumed so, but maybe it isn't true. if not, what good is Photo
> CD (other than as an archival methodology)?
> --
> Michael H. Collier        INET: collier@ariel.unm.edu   BITNET:
COLLIER@UNMB
> 1160 Don Pasqual NW; Los Lunas, NM 87031; (505) 865 8770 / (505) 764 5320
> "She was a blonde. The kind of blonde that would make a bishop kick in
> 	a stained glass window". - Raymond Chandler
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: m14430@mwunix.mitre.org (Lawrence Larson)
Subject: Re: Grolier's File Format?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:15:15 GMT

gaston@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Gaston Groisman) writes:

>I just got the text only, DOS version of the New Grolier Electronic
>Encyclopedia and want to run it from a workstation.  I can read the CD
>fine, but would like to know the format of the file in it to write my
>on search program.

>Does anyone know in what format the file is written?

Sorry to bear bad news, but it's in a proprietary format using a
proprietary compression and indexing scheme developed by Online
Computer Systems Inc, of Germantown MD. (I used to work there, so
this is gospel, I'm afraid...)

-- Larry
From: markc@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Mark Cervarich)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: GIFs Galore CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:22:06 GMT
Organization: HP Scientific Instruments Division - Palo Alto, CA

Very good review, glad to see it posted....but what is the price???

mark
From: catone@hilbert.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD - buy it!
Date: 3 Sep 92 04:15:52 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
In-reply-to: emv@msen.com's message of 22 Aug 92 21:09:54 GMT

In article <176afgINNq30@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

   Scholarly editions cost beaucoup bucks compared to popular editions.

Unless one is studying popular culture, of course, in which case the 
popular editions are the scholarly editions.  The study of pop culture is
an up and comer in the field of history these days.


- Tony
  catone@hilbert.wharton.upenn.edu
From: HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: MSCDEX HELP PLEASE!!!
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:22:26 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center


In article <1227767297@trsvax>, pauls@trsvax.tandy.com says:
>
>Well, if you mean invoke it:
>
>mscdex /{drive letter}:{drive handle}
>
>where {drive letter} is the letter of the next available drive (usually D)
>
>and {drive handle} is the "mounting name" you indicated in your
>drive-dependent driver (usually in config.sys).
>
>The default {drive handle} is usually mscd001. Therefoe, the invocation
>would be:
>
>mscdex /d:mscd001
>
>assuming in config.sys you had something like:
>
>device=cdrom.drv d:mscd001
>
>note that the drive letter is not the drive letter mscdex will use, it will
>"assign" the logical drive to the next letter available. In other words, if
>you already have c,d,e in a hard drive, the cdrom then becomes f: EVEN
>THOUGH you 'told' mscdex to use d: (why this is, I have no idea, it just
>works).

Thers is also a small write-up in the archives under msdos/cdrom. I found
mine at oak.oakland.edu. But I have seen it in other mirror sites also.

Harold
Harvey@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu
From: pjs@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Peter John Swiatkowski)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Hitachi CD-ROM
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:39:10 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne

In article <17uqo2INNhq3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> pustule@cats.ucsc.edu (Thaddeus H. Wood) writes:
>
>Hi there.  I have a Hitachi CD-ROM drive, which is kind
>of old.  It actually has the Amdek label, which is the
>Laserdrive-1.  I have mscdex221 and all of the hitachi
>drivers for it, but I don't know what any of the 
>installation options are.  For instance, I don't know
>what should go after the device = hitachi.sys statement
>in the config.sys.  If anyone can point me to some info,
>or send me there startup information that works, it would
>be GREATLY appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Thad

From a "READ ME FIRST" sheet included in a (now defunct) Hitachi CD ROM
drive:
	device=hitachia.sys /d:<devicename> /n:<number> /p:<address>


where 	devicename is usually mscd001.

	number is the number if chained drives. Assumes 1 if omitted.

 and	address is the IO address to which the interface card has been set.

The interface card was a model CD-1F14-A with jumpers for I/O address as
follows:

	S0	200
	S1	220
	S2	240
	S3	260
	S4	300
	S5	320
	S6	340
	S7	360

Note that this driver is called HITACHIA.SYS and not HITACHI.SYS. There was
also a HITACHIB.SYS for use with PS/2s.

The corresponding MSCDEX command is something like:

	mscdex /d:<devicename> /l:<driveletter> /m:<buffersize>

where	devicename is the only required option and must be the same name
	used in the DEVICE= statement in config.sys. You can include
	multiple /d:<devicename> options if you loaded more than one CD ROM
	driver in config.sys.

	<driveletter> is the drive letter to be used for the first CD ROM
	drive. Other drive letters are assigned sequentially, and you have
	to have a lastdrive statement if any drives are going to be
	assigned beyond E:. If this option is omitted the next available
	drive letter is used, but the LASTDRIVE statement for CONFIG.SYS
	requirement remains.

 and	buffersize is the number of 2K buffers reserved by MSCDEX for CD
	ROM data buffering.

Other switches include:

	/e	to have MSCDEX use EMS memory (for buffering presumably) if
		available.

and	/v	to provide a statistical listing of MSCDEX memory usage at
		the time of invocation.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion.


Peter Swiatkowski
University of Melbourne
Victoria, AUSTRALIA
From: liles@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Clifton Liles 282-4736)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Date: 27 Aug 1992 12:20:57 GMT
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company

In article <17060002@hpldsla.sid.hp.com>, markc@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Mark Cervarich) writes:
|> Again, great review....but what is the price????
|> mark
	Hi Neters, 
Here's Bob post:

The Desktop Library CD-ROM contains 2000+ electronic texts: 
A complete index of the disc is available by anonymous ftp from
cdrom.com (192.153.46.254) in the file /pub/cdroms/desktop/00_index.txt.
The price is $39.95.  Shipping and handling is $5 (per order, not per disc)
for US/Can/Mex, and $10 for airmail overseas.  If you live in California,
please add sales tax.  You can send a check or money order to

rab@sprite.berkeley.edu (Robert A. Bruce)

    Walnut Creek CDROM
    1547 Palos Verdes, Suite 260
    Walnut Creek, CA  94596
    USA

Or you can order by MasterCard/ Visa.  If you do not trust email with
your credit card number, you can call

    +1 800 786-9907
    +1 510 947-5996
    +1 510 947-1644 FAX

I will send a free disc to anybody that has contributed any etexts.
This includes anyone that has contributed any etexts to the Gutenberg
project, anyone that wrote any of the the RFC's, and anyone that created
any other etexts included on the disc.  If you want a free disc please
send me the name of the file you created and a complete mailing address.

Here is a list of other CD-ROMs available:

Simtel20 MSDOS CD-ROM, 550 Meg, June 1992                       $24.95
CICA MicroSoft Windows CD-ROM, 140 Meg, July 92                 $24.95
Usenet Source Code CD-ROM, 600 Meg, March 1992		        $39.95
Garbo MSDOS/MAC CD-ROM, 250 Meg MSDOS, 150 Meg Mac, May 92      $24.95
X11R5 and GNU source w/ sparc binaries, Feb 1992                $39.95
AB20 Amiga CD-ROM, May 1992 (Doesn't work on CDTV)              $24.95
OS/2 Archives CD-ROM, hobbes & novell.com archives May 1992     $24.95
Gifs Galore CD-ROM, 6000 images, 650 Meg, Aug 1992              $24.95
Caddies                                                          $4.95

	-bob
---------------------------------
	Cliff
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 -=-  debug the software."
From: rjmathia@la.sjf.novell.com (Robert Mathias)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Street Atlas CD-ROM
Date: 28 Aug 92 07:22:19 GMT
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia

In article <1992Aug26.132959.23178@rambo.atlanta.dg.com> rlw@atlanta.dg.com (Richard Wright) writes:
>Has anyone had experience with the CD-ROM package called Street Atlas USA?
>I have read some tantalizing short reviews and this sounds like a good
>addition to my newly-established CD-ROM collection. Some of my questions:
>  * Does it run under Win3.1?

yes.

>  * Does it have a print capability? (laserjet prefered)

No.  You can capture a screen to the clip board and from there import it
to a graphic program (i.e. CorelDraw,  MicroGrafx Draw) in order to print
the screen.

>  * Is it fairly complete? What sort of streets do not appear?

It seems to be fairly complete.  I looked up the addresses of all the places
I've lived over the years (about 15 places) and all the streets were there.

>  * How recent is the data?

I don't know.

>
>Any help will be appreciated. 
>
>-- 
>*-----------------------------------------------------------------------*
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>



Bob Mathias
rjmathia@Novell.com
CSERV: 70340,165
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:28:27 GMT


In a previous article, markc@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Mark Cervarich) says:

>Again, great review....but what is the price????
>
>
>mark
>
>

$39.95 + $5 S/H

-- 
aa699@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU/GEnie=A.THOMAS16/Compuserve:71541,3456
TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
"True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: 75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM (Nick Arnett)
Subject: PhotoCD formats
Reply-To: Nick Arnett <75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:19:22 GMT

Attn: CDROM-L
                       Subject:
Time:2:00 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          PhotoCD formats
Date:8/26/92
In response to Ajay Shah's query, I think the news is bad.  Kodak
seems to plan to restrict encoding of PhotoCD to the authorized
photofinishing services, including its own, that have the mastering
facilities.  This raises the weird scenario of being unable to
convert images from other formats, such as JPEG or even raw RGB, to
PhotoCD, unless you can find a photofinisher or other Kodak licensee,
perhaps, who'll do it for you!

Bear in mind that Kodak's motivation seems to be to preserve film as
a capture medium for high-quality images.  Thus, one can guess that
they'd see conversion of images a competitor to their film business.
Ditto for still cameras that would capture directly to the PhotoCD
format.  Notice that no one has announced anything like that, while
Fuji is heavily involved in development (with Zoran) of a format and
chips for such cameras, which are now available.  BTW, Fuji is also a
PhotoCD licensee.

This seems quite short-sighted to me.  It assures a healthy future
for JPEG and other digital compression formats that are competitive
with PhotoCD.  Perhaps a totally open specification would threaten
Kodak's film business in a few years, but it would seem that Kodak
isn't even interested in supporting any kind of encoding of PhotoCD
outside of those that come from film.

This is going to shut off big parts of the market, if it's true.  For
example, imagine that you have a collection of color slides Q many
businesses have huge libraries that they'd like to manage on
computer, rather than as physical slides.  To get them into the
PhotoCD format, they'll have to re-shoot them on film and take it to
a PhotoCD processor or find a PhotoCD processor who'll do it for
them.  There seems to be no option for doing it yourself.

Nick Arnett
Multimedia Computing Corp.
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Chief Sysop, Multimedia Forums on CompuServe
From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Apple CDROM drive
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:38:15 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:

>I need to use a CD-ROM player to install the SDK for windows
>NT, and I would like to not have to buy a CD-ROM drive becuase
>this is all I need to do with it at this time.  I have access
>to an Apple CD-ROM drive at work, and I would like to be able
>to use it with my pc.  I need to know what SCSI controller I would
>need, and what drivers would be necessary to access this drive
>from DOS.  

Trantor Systems
(415) 770-1400
(415) 770-9910 fax
trantor@applelink.apple.com

sells cards and drivers for DOS machines which will let an Apple CD-ROM
drive work.  I haven't used them.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Hitachi CD-ROM
Date: 3 Sep 92 11:28:52 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

pustule@cats.ucsc.edu (Thaddeus H. Wood) writes:

> 
> Hi there.  I have a Hitachi CD-ROM drive, which is kind
> of old.  It actually has the Amdek label, which is the
> Laserdrive-1.  I have mscdex221 and all of the hitachi
> drivers for it, but I don't know what any of the 
> installation options are.  For instance, I don't know
> what should go after the device = hitachi.sys statement
> in the config.sys.  If anyone can point me to some info,
> or send me there startup information that works, it would
> be GREATLY appreciated.
> 
This probably is the old Hitachi 1503S or 1502S. For the device
driver, use:

DEVICE= HITACHI.SYS /D:xxxxxxxx /N:1,
   where xxxxxxxx is the device name such as CDROM01, the /N parameter
   specifies the number of drives attached.

MSCDEX parameters that you must have is:
   /D:xxxxxxxx, where xxxxxxxx is the device name you gave in HITACHI.SYS
                line.

   /M:nn, where nn is number of buffers. A number of 4 to 8 will help.

So if you have DEVICE=HITACHI.SYS /D:MYCDROM /N:1
you need MSCDEX /D:MYCDROM /M:4

Mscdex will assign the next available drive letter to the cdrom. If you
wish to specify the drive letter, use /L:x, where x is the drive letter.
Read the CD-Rom faq. There are some useful files you can ftp from cdrom.com
site (details in the faq).

GeSS
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Subject: Re: Ever use DAK CD-ROM from BSR?
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:34:13 GMT


In a previous article, aep@world.std.com (Andrew E Page) says:

>
>    Has anyone ever used this CD-ROM with a macintosh?  They're extoling
>its virtues for PCs.  Anyone have good experiences with it?  Bad?
>Metsa Metsa?
>
>DoD# 0581   1990 Suzuki VX800   MSF Intro Class Aug 1990
>-- 
>Andrew E. Page CTO(Warrior Poet)|   Decision and Effort The Archer and Arrow
>DSP Ironworks                   |     The difference between what we are
>Macintosh and DSP Technology    |           and what we want to be.
>

This CD-ROM drive uses a Sony proprietary (non-SCSI) IBM interface and
therefore will not work with a Mac.


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: ADM0404@SAIPA00.BITNET
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: ADM0404@SAIPA00.bitnet
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:45:48 GMT

confirm cdrom-l
----------------------------------------------------------------
From: barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Date: 3 Sep 1992 08:12:05 GMT
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
NNTP-Posting-Host: daisy.ee.und.ac.za

rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller) writes:
> While on the subject of this CD, however, it would be nice if someone
> could find a sed/awk/perl or whatever script to remova all the formatting
> from the plain text files, and put them into a format suitible for reading
> into a word-processor or DTP program.

Dov Grobgeld <dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il> once posted a perl script
to convert formatted plain text to LaTeX.  I no longer have a copy of
the script.

--apb (Alan Barrett)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: mboom@ntg.com (Mike Boom)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Microsoft Bookshelf
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:13:53 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

Speaking of Microsoft Bookshelf, does anyone know if Microsoft has any
plans for releasing it for the Macintosh?

Mike Boom
Toxic Screen Dumps, Inc.
A non-funded non-subsidiary of NTG, Inc.
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Controlling MSCDEX via a 'C' program
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:54:33 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

AISTERWI@EKU.BITNET writes:

> Hello. I just finished a couple of programs (in 'C') which
> exercise most of the calls MSCDEX supports. One of the programs
> excepts command line arguments to eject cd, lock, read &display sectors,
> play audio cd sectors, reset, etc. Another program is a simple
> audio CD play program (with mouse interface) that plays audio CDs on
> CDROM drives that support audio.
> My question is where can I send these two programs (and source code
> if anyone is interested) so that others can take advantage of them.
> thanks. Earl Terwilliger AISTERWI@EKU.bitnet

How about posting them in alt.sources and comp.misc.sources?

GeSS
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From: HUM_LARRY_L@LILLY.COM (Larry Hum)
Subject: Re: Ever use DAK CD-ROM from BSR?
Reply-To: Larry Hum <HUM_LARRY_L@LILLY.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:32:49 GMT

In a previous reply Tony Thomas <aa699@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU> replied:

> This CD-ROM drive uses a Sony proprietary (non-SCSI) IBM interface and
> therefore does not work with a Mac.

I recall reading a message in the CD conference on FIDO or RIME that Sony's
IBM interface is actually a modified SCSI interface.  The message further
went on to say that someone had figured out the pinouts and made their own
SCSI connector and was able to connect to a standard SCSI interface.  If
anyone knows how to figure out the pinouts, there should be no reason why
the drive couldn't work on a Mac

Larry Hum
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
St. Paul, MN  55012

From: HUM LARRY L                   (CPIVAX::HUM)

To:   FOREIGN TRANSPORT ADDRESSEE   (MCDEV1::IN%"CDROM-L@uccvma.ucop.edu")
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: orb@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Randolph Turner)
Subject: Other CD-ROM drives for SB PRO?
Organization: Alchemy International
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:44:58 GMT

  I would like to ad a CD-ROM to my system, and I already have a SoundBlaster
Pro.  The question here is what other drives than the Mitsushita (or whatever
it is that Mediavision sells) will attach to the built in interface.  The
manual refers to it as a an "AT-BUS typ interface" and last I knew IDE was
referred to similarly.  Also, I have seen the Chinon drives stated as having
"AT-BUS interfaces "(no, they weren't talking about the cards, they were
seperate).  The Talon claims to have an IDE type interface.

  Will either of these drives work on the SB PRO?  If not, which ones will?

Thanks,
Randy