Re: Support for ODS-2 disks on OS-X ?

In article <478140DE.1010501@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
JF Mezei wrote:
Does anyone know if there are plug-ins/whatever that would allow OS-X to
read the VMS documentation and layered products CDs ?

I assume those CDs are in ODS-2 format.

I realise that the MAC wouldn't be able to do much with those files, bu
it could serve then via NFS or FTP to those who still need access to them.

The ODS-2 specification is available. You could write your own if noone
else has.

The online documentation CDs have been available in bookreader format on
Windows readable CDs for years - together with a Microsoft Windows version of
the bookreader program.

Later releases came on ISO 9660 level 2 (ODL-ISO) compliant CD-ROM that could
be read from both Microsoft Windows and HP OpenVMS platforms and contained
newer material in HTML and PDF format as well as archived material in
bookreader format.

I have one such CD sitting in front of me here :-

HP OpenVMS layered Products Online Documentation Library for HP OpenVMS Alpha
Servers and Microsoft Windows Platforms
September 2006


If you are stuck with ODS-2 format CDs then you would be better off serving
them from a VMS system but if you must do it from the Mac then you could see
whether you could port any of the ODS2 tools from

http://www.vms2linux.de/ods2.html to OS-X


unfortunately according to http://www.vms2linux.de/ods2fs.html only the
binaries are currently available for download for linux version of the ods2
filesystem so you will probably need to mail the address at the bottom of that
page and see whether you could get the sources from the author.



David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University


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