Re: ARHS/nsw Track and Signal diagrams CD ROM (NSW)

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick) wrote:

>In <7l6ifd$gal$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au> G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert) writes:

>>The largest image size is is about 1 MByte, which I think applies to
>>"blueprints"- light on a dark background.  Most images are in the 100
>>to 200 KByte range.  All are TIFF files.  You don't need the software
>>to look at the images, although the TIFF files are not readable by all
>>image software packages.  The software is a read-only, stripped-down,
>>version of DB/TextWorks a data management package.

>Are the CD's in true ISO-9660 format, which would enable them to be used in
>more than just Wintel machines? All my machines are Sun workstations running
>Unix, so unless the CD's are in real ISO-9660 format I won't be able to use
>them.

>The files should ideally be set up so they can be accessed independently of
>any software supplied with the CD's, since that restricts their worth.

>Regards,

>Craig.

You speak of things I do not know, so I don't have an answer

To Windows and DOS, the disk appears as a standard drive, with a
standard directory structure

Geoff Lambert



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