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From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATAPI CDROM drive and xmcd or workman
Date: 20 Jan 1997 20:48:52 GMT
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chris andrichak (chris@i-planet.com) wrote:
: I have an Alaris P100 with fBSD 2.1.5 and a Mitsumi ATAPI 6x CDROM drive, but I can't seem to get either xmcd or workman to control it at all. Anyone have any experience?

I have enough experience to know that I've not gotten xmcd to work.  :)
I've used xcd/xcdplayer (tcl-based) at it works fine.  RTFM about which
environment variables to set, and how to config it.

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