Karen wrote:
> do i need to look for a special file on the disk to
> access whatever goodies that disk contains, or i s there a
> universal start command to access data cd roms? in dos, of
> course.
MSCDEX has an option to specify the drive letter for your
CD. I use "W" so the line in my autoexec.bat looks like
this:
LH /L:3,32112 C:\SYS\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /M:8 /L:W
The explanation is in your DOS help file. If you don't
want to get into that, you can just add the last part
(/L:W) to your existing line. A good choice in most cases
is to use "R" (for cd Rom) or something which you can
easily remember.
If you don't specify, it will decide for itself, in
which case it will be the drive letter after the last one
specified otherwise. Remember to have a "lastdrv="
statement in your config.sys which is greater than what
you plan to use. Most people just write "lastdrv=Z".
For using the CD drive everything is just like any other
drive. Go the the drive, eg "cd w:" and do a dir and you
will encounter a regular file system.
What you type to run things will depend on the program
(if any) which is on there, but it is the same idea as if
you were using your harddrive. It's easy!
Cheers,
Ole Juul
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