awillis@pro-angmar.UUCP (Albert Willis) (05/03/90)
In-Reply-To: message from gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL There are CD-ROMs for the Apple II that appear as ProDOS volumes. InterChange, the group of user groups that just put on the National Apple User Group Conference, have created a CD-ROM for Apple II owners. Also, Apple's "Phil & Dave's Excellent CD" has an Apple II partition which has some great stuff for technical people and other agressive end-users. Unfortunately, not many CD-ROM publishers are using the ISO/High Sierra format for there CD-ROMs. Even if they did, you would still need an application that could deal with the data. While an encyclopedia is available in ISO/High Sierra format, an application that can deal with the index and allow queries to the data would be needed. Albert Willis INET: pro-angmar!awillis@alphalpha.com | America Online: BCS Al UUCP:..!uunet!alphalpha!pro-angmar!awillis | GEnie: A.Willis
sb@pro-generic.cts.com (Stephen Brown) (05/05/90)
In-Reply-To: message from farrier@Apple.COM I appreciate the information supplied by Doug Gwyn (gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL) and Cary Farrier (farrier@Apple.COM). Let me quote Cary: >aside from >being able to read the files on the disk (handled by the FSTs under >GS/OS), you still need to know what to do with the files, how to search >the database, etc. Perhaps, really, that is my question. I don't know how files are typically stored on CD ROMs, ie. whether they are ASCII or DBASE or what. Presumably, they are in some format which is friendly to most MS-DOS machines. Does this mean then, that though GS/OS would let me look at the files, there isn't much I could do with them? I wouldn't expect that CD's would come with an Apple IIGS application to do the retreival, so what would I use? Would I be competely S.O.L.? I must admit that I don't (personally) own an Apple CD ROM, but I had been asked by a school interested in connecting a CD ROM to their GS's, whether it was worth it, to access available databases such as the Periodical Index, Brittanica, etc. I think they TOO would rather not use one of those, er... cheap MS DOS machines for a general purpose task like this. The bottom line: Is there a CD ROM retreival application written for the IIGS? [if not, which technotes cover this stuff?] Thanks again, STEPHEN BROWN (Willowdale, Ontario, CANADA) sb@pro-generic ---this signature could be three to six times longer like everyone elses, thus wasting precious bandwidth. Of course, who am I to say? UUCP: crash!pro-generic!sb ARPA: crash!pro-generic!sb@nosc.mil INET: sb@pro-generic.cts.com