[PLUG] cd burning software (possibly the another newbie question)

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:01:59AM -0500, Doug Porter wrote:
> Actually some operating systems such as MacOS and SunOS (possibily
> Solaris) use non-iso9660 filesystems on cds.

I believe IRIX, DYNIX, and at least one flavor of DEC OS (VMS?) all do
the same sort of thing: they burn an FS as it would appear on-disk (in
some sense) onto a CD, thereby making it not in ISO-9660 format.

I've yet to hear of anyone trying to make sense of these formats.
There aren't too many legitimate uses for doing so, except for perhaps
curiousity or some sort of programming challenge. (That is, about the
only practical utility it would have is warezing IRIX et al because
these tend to be installation media formatted like this.)

Cheers,
Bill
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