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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

		Rock Ridge CD-ROM Premastering Software
   
SunFLASH Vol 35 #15					       November 1991 
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This is a third party announcement from Thomas Stapleton of 
Young Minds, Inc. -johnj
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Unix software publishers can now place multiple binaries for multiple
computer platforms on the same CD-ROM.  Discs formatted using the new
"Rock Ridge" extensions enable endusers to operate their Unix software
binaries directly off the CD-ROM.

Young Minds, Inc.(YMi), announces a new "Rock Ridge" version of
"Makedisc", the leading CD-ROM formatting utility for creating discs
that fully support the ISO 9660 and X/Open XCDR standards.  This
software creates POSIX-compliant CD-ROM disc images that are ready for
in-house testing, CD Write Once creation, or mastering at a CD-ROM
production facility.

The Rock Ridge specifications are the Unix industry's proposed standard
for handling POSIX file names and other file system semantics on
CD-ROM.  It supports long (255+ character) file names, upper and lower
case characters, deep directories and symbolic links, as well as many
other features Unix users require.

Today Rock Ridge is rapidly becoming the defacto Unix CD-ROM standard
as it becomes adopted by more and more major computer companies.
Companies committed to providing Rock Ridge CD-ROM driver support for
their Unix operating systems include Sun, HP, DEC, Sony, Interactive,
SCO, and Silicon Graphics, among others.

Most ISO 9660 CD-ROMs currently distributed by Unix-based software
vendors, computer manufacturers and multimedia publishers are formatted
with "Makedisc".  It is an extremely easy to use program and requires
no dedicated hardware.

"Makedisc" is Available on the following platforms:

Sun SPARC, Sun 3&4, HP9000, DEC, NeXT, IBM RS/6000, SCO Xenix,
Interactive, MIPS, 88open and Apollo systems.

For More Information Contact:

Thomas Stapleton
Young Minds, Inc.
308 W. State St. Suite 2B
Redlands CA 92373

Ph:  714-335-1350	 Fax: 714-798-0488
E-mail: yngmnds!stapltn@ucrmath.ucr.edu
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