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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:28:44 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   reading a dos cdrom with .pdf files.
Message-ID:  <20041120002844.GA77574@thought.org>

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	People,

	I have several CDROMS all of which seem to be DOS type.

	At first I tried the disc in my CD player.  Nope; then 
	in one of my 5.3 machines using mount_msdosfs.  (probably
	with the wrong flags, I admit.) As a last resort  I put the
	disc in my RH-8 platform intended to reboot into W2K. But
	a cup of coffee later I find that Red Hat had already popped
	up a window with the title of the disc and that it is a
	1.1MB pdf file.  I doubt this CDROM is a an ISO-9660 
	(or whatever).   But it's nice that  RH knew automagically 
	what to do with it and to pop up  the pdf reader.  

	I know there is the genius in FBSD-land to do this; probably
	just enough not people.  My question is: what are the FBSD
	commands to let me mount this disc and let me read the
	files to be able to point acroread at them?

	tia,

	gary



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   Gary Kline     kline@thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix



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