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In article <7g1cl8$vcb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
 <1900live@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>Does anybody know if it is possible to write a CD in w95 and read it in SCO ?

It is possible, however the bundled versions of some of the mastering 
software will create Joliet only images and requires a proprietory wrapper
around any raw CD image.  Older tools will produce plain ISO 9660 (8.3
file names) and at least one works with raw CD images, but the bundled
version of EZ CD Creator fails on both counts.

For long filenames, SCO Unix 3.2v4.2 needs a SCO file system image,
which can only sensibly be created on the SCO machine; this can be
written on W95 if you have a mastering tool that handles raw CD images.
v5.0.x needs Rock Ridge extensions, although I don't know that any of
the W95 mastering tools supports these.  mkisofs 12b4 (probably b5 too)
will create CD images that give long filenames under Joliet and Rock
Ridge standards at the same time.

You can use cdrecord, with SCSI recorders, to do the whole job on SCO
(although I've only used it on Linux, with ATAPI ones).

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