Re: Networking CD-ROMs

Philip Hess (philip@nauticom.net)
Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:59:37 EDT

Hello,

I've done this with HyperStudio in my mac lab (we have a network license)
and found that it works well. You'll need to fix up the aliases by making
sure that they point to the files and folders that they should.

This may not work in all cases though. Some of the HyperStudio stacks want a
CD Rom drive in every computer that uses it (which mine don't have). They
will request that you insert the CD Rom.

Another trick to do is install multiple copies of the same application so
that every nth computer loads from that copy. Give them all different names
and place them in the same folder. This way they can access the same support
files. As long as you are only reading from the files and not writing to
them you should have no problems.

>I want to network CD-ROM's in my school's library. My plan is to
>download the information from the CD-ROMs onto a 9 gigabit hard drive and
>put the hard drive on the library's network.

Hope this helps

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