RE: Encyclopaedia Britannica on Linux

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

I suppose it's worth checking if the normal installation routine installs 
custom dlls for dealing with encryption, disk access protection etc. which 
may not function under Wine.

On Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:59 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull 
[SMTP:turnbull [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp] wrote:
> >>>>> "Jose" == Jose L Gomez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk> 
writes:
>
>     Jose>     Well, the CD rom should also work with Win 3.11, and
>     Jose> seems to be accessed without problems at all. Maybe it's
>     Jose> looking for some physical access, even though it looks
>     Jose> pretty transparent to me. Hmmm... We'll keep on trying!
>
> Have you tried to mount it under Linux?  You could at least confirm
> that there is a sensible file system on the disc.  If neither iso9660
> nor msdos works, you're probably out of luck.
>
> (My bets are on iso9660, but publishers in financial trouble have been
> known to do some really strange things to protect their IP!)
>
>

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