http://www.shsu.edu/~csc_jhm/ Latest Versions as of October 19, 2000 SHSUSERV Version 3.1 SHSUCDN Version 0.01 SHSUCDX Version 1.4b SHSUDRVX Version 1.1 SHSUCDHD Version 4.0 CDCACHER Version 5.0 SHSUSERV is a CD-ROM server that allows 48 users simultaneous access to CD-ROMs. The CDs may be mounted on physical drives or they may be cached images created on a hard disk using the CDCACHER program. Driver names and cache image names may be specified in a server initiation file (SHSUSERV.INI) at start up. SHSUCDN is a pseudo CD-ROM driver that runs as a TSR on a client work- station. It accepts CD-ROM driver request from MSCDEX and transmits them on to the server and returns the server response to MSCDEX. SHSUCDX may be used in place of MSCDEX. SHSUCDX is a CD-ROM redirector substitute for MSCDEX. It differs from MSCDEX in that it can be un-loaded, it occupies less memory, and only selected drives are mapped. Version 1.4b also converts lowercase characters to upper case in directory entries. Lower case characters are invalid but some mastering programs put them in. Local and networked CD-ROMs can be accessed simultaneously using the SHSUSERV/SHSUCDN client/server software or by using SHSUCDHD. A total of 10 drives can be mapped in any order from all available drives on 10 drivers. See README.CDX SHSUDRVX is a CD driver/controller emulator which emulates two CD drives loaded with ISO CD ROMS. It is useful for testing. It can be loaded multiple times with different driver names to simulate more than 2 drives. See README.DRV SHSUCDHD is a pseudo CD-ROM driver that runs as a TSR on a client work- station and makes up to 5 local or remote cd cache images appear as cd drives. It is known to be compatible with Novell VLM clients and NT clients. It will not access remote cache files using Novell's NETX shell client. See README.CDH Images can be created using the Cacher program or any program that can create and ISO disk image. Warning!!!! Attempting to use MSCDEX with SHSUCDHD will crash your system. SHSUCDX must be used. CDCACHER is a stand alone program for making a hard disk cache image of a CD ROM for the server. A full CD can take a while and lots of disk space. 2KBLOCK.DAT is a 2048 byte block of nulls for converting old cache images to the new cache format. See README.1ST. KLUDGE0 is a dummy CD driver which makes a specified driver,unit appear as unit 0 on CD0. SHSUSERV, SHSUCDN, SHSUCDX, SHSUDRVX, SHSUCDHD and CDCACHER are copyright reserved, free use programs. Use at your own risk. Time permitting, an attempt will be made to fix problems that are reported to CSC_JHM@SHSU.EDU. (c)John H. McCoy, 1994, 1995, 1996 Sam Houston St. Univ., TX 77341-2206