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From:Andrew Crowe
Date:8 Mar 2001 at 21:38:50
Subject:Re: UDF CD-RW's

Hi Everybody,

>> I have a CD-RW drive on my PC, which works pretty well, except that
>> I can't access CD-RW discs on my amiga.
>>
>> It just presents me with a PC program to install a UDF driver, no
>> use
>> to me.
>
> Surely CrossDos can read Joliet file CD's? Is it because the disks
> are bootable on a PC and trying to launch a PC installer on your
> Amiga? Just a thought!
> Richy.

nonono it's not Joliet, it's a packet writing format that CD-RW drives
use.

The format can obviously have a dual ISO & UDF format disc, as there's
a small installer for the UDF file format on a PC (and PC's can't
read them by default either, hence the need for an installer)

See ya :)


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