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cdrom-summary.txt    Is a technical summary of what and how CD-ROM
                     technology can do by Andy Poggio <poggio@metaphor.com>

cdroms-and-pcnfs.txt Is a breif review paper by Edmund J. Sutcliffe
                     <edmund@york.ac.uk> on using PC-NFS to server CD-ROMS

mscdex-functions.lst Is a list of  MSCDEX function calls and returns,
                     from MicroSoft.

infopack.exe         Is a pack on infomation distributed by MicroSoft on the
                     CD-ROM technology and networking.

mscdex-usage-by-package.lst 
                     Is a fairly complete breakdown of whose search
                     software uses which MSCDEX funtions. This was done
                     by Colin Ian King <cik@ukc.ac.uk> of the  Templeman
                     Library, University of Kent.

mxsub.zip            Is a MSCDEX faker. Written by Digital Solutions in
                     Australia and now placed in the public domain under
                     GNU public license.

mscmon.[c exe]       This code is a rewrite of the MXSUB code written by
mscsub.[c exe]       by Colin Ian King <cik@ukc.ac.uk> of the  Templeman
                     Library, University of Kent. This suceeds in faking the
                     following MSCDEX functions
                          00h     Get Number of CD ROM Drives
                          06h     Turn Debugging on
                          07h     Turn Debugging off
                          0ah     (Reserved)
                          0bh     CD ROM Drive check
                          0ch     MSCDEX Version
                          0dh     Get CD Drive Letters
                          0eh     Get/Set Volume Descriptor Preference
fcdex.[com txt] Fake CD-ROM Extensions - For use with a networked CD-ROM by
              R. Allen Gwinn, Jr - Southern Methodist University 
              (allen@mail.cox.smu.edu)
              Traps Int 2F, Fn 15h and answers commonly asked questions.
              Although most modern CD-ROM search packages are smart enough to
              deal with network drives, a few insist on having MSCDEX loaded,
              or they complain.  There are only a few calls that are made,
              presumably to verify that there is a CD-ROM drive attached.
              This TSR sits in memory and "lies" to the search software to get
              it past these  initial questions.
                           

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