Re: Encyclopaedia Britannica on Linux

["José Luis Gómez Dans" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

    Stephen> Have you tried to mount it under Linux?  You could at
    Stephen> least confirm that there is a sensible file system on the
    Stephen> disc.  If neither iso9660 nor msdos works, you're
    Stephen> probably out of luck.

	     No, Linux mounts the CD fine, without a glitch. I can
look at some of the background graphics and all that.

    Stephen> (My bets are on iso9660, but publishers in financial
    Stephen> trouble have been known to do some really strange things
    Stephen> to protect their IP!)

	     In fact, the database is just a bunch of cgi scripts
lying around, and looking a lot like perl... It makes you wonder :-)

      Regards,
José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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