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From: gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: Mac Sysadmin questions
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 13:40:55 GMT

In article <7579@bgsuvax.UUCP>, dnebing@bgsuvax.UUCP (David Nebinger) writes:
>	I thought that the High-Sierra format was supposed to make the cd's
>readable by both machines.  I know that they couldn't use each other's
>applications, etc., but general the file structures could be read and
>understood by both machines.

True, but they have to -use- the High Sierra format to do this.  Most
CD-ROM publishers, in order to optimize the CD-ROM, produce them in the
specific format of the intended platform.

Not all, just most.

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Jim Gaynor - AgVAX System Manager - Academic Computing - Ohio State University
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