John Zabolitzky wrote: It looks like the collection will be split up the following ways: 1. One RT-11 CD-R, with both ISO9660 *and* RT-11 style directories. The ISO9660 directory will contain RT-11 logical disks that can be examined on a PC clone with John Wilson's PUTR (or on a VMS machine with VMS EXCHANGE) and will be at the beginning of the disk, and the RT-11 style directories will be at the "end" of the disk and accessed as high-numbered partitions through RT-11's DU driver, for those lucky enough to have a CD-ROM drive directly connected to their -11. Those using the full-blown version of John Wilson's E11 emulator could access the high-numbered RT-11 partitions, those using the non-full-blown version could still look at the logical disks on the ISO9660 partition. The "dual format" RT-11 CD-R is possible because the sum total of all the RT-11 stuff is under 300 Megabytes - thus I can put everything on the CD-R twice, once in the ISO9660 directory and once in a RT-11 directory. 2. The RSX-11 CD-ROM. The sum total of stuff here comes very near 650 Mbytes, so it's not possible to have "dual-format" stuff here. So I propose three different flavors: 2A: An ODS-1 (i.e. native RSX-11 format) CD-ROM. Only useful to those with a CD-ROM drive hooked up to a real PDP-11, or to those using John Wilson's full-blown E11 emulator. 2B: An ISO9660 CD-ROM filled with RSX-11 virtual disks. These would be useful to folks who could Kermit or FTP the logical disks to a real RSX-11 machine with a virtual disk driver, or to those running John Wilson's full-blown E11. 2C: An ISO9660 CD-ROM with all the files from the RSX SIG and DECUS collections as individual files. Source code could be Kermit'ted or FTP'ed to a real RSX machine as necessary. I want to keep options 2A and 2B open, because these allow the most direct access to the RSX-11 files on a RSX-11 machine or emulator. But I suspect that many people will end up with 2C, just because this is the only option for files directly human-readable on a PC-clone (not running E11) or workstation. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927